White House Secures Voluntary Commitments from Eight Additional AI Companies

Summary
On September 12, 2023, the White House announced that the Biden-Harris Administration secured voluntary commitments from eight additional AI companies—Adobe, Cohere, IBM, Nvidia, Palantir, Salesforce, Scale AI, and Stability—mirroring those made by Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI in July. The voluntary commitments include ensuring internal and external testing before product release, investing in cybersecurity and insider threat safeguards, labeling AI-generated content using watermarking or other technology, and sharing information about risks and vulnerabilities. Concurrently, the Biden Administration is developing an executive order (EO) and will pursue bipartisan legislation to help the US lead in AI innovation.