When OpenAI and other companies start new AI projects, they’ll soon need to inform the feds of their plans.The Biden administration plans to use the Defense Production Act to require tech companies to let the government know when they train an AI model using a significant amount of computing power, Wired reports. The companies will also be required to provide information about the safety testing being done on the models they create.The ruling making the requirement could happen as soon as next week.Wired notes that the requirement will give the US government unprecedented insight into sensitive projects going on inside OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and other tech companies. The US government, for instance, will be the first to know when OpenAI begins work on GPT-5.In addition to notifying the government of their projects, companies will also be required to share when a foreign company uses their technology to train a large language model.
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In October, the White House announced plans to use the Defense Production Act to require companies that are creating AI models that could potentially pose “a serious risk to national security, national economic security, or national public health and safety” to let the government know about their creation and training. That plan is now being implemented.The decision is part of an attempt by the White House to get ahead of any concerns over the potential misuse of AI before it happens, as AI models get more and more advanced.
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