Apple on Friday joined more than a dozen major tech companies pledging to abide by the Biden administration’s guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the White House, which is looking to mitigate AI-related risks.
With the move, Apple joins 15 other companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, in pledging to develop AI to include granting government access to the test results of the companies’ AI models to assess biases and security risks.
Under the guidelines, AI developers such as Apple promise to follow rigorous new standards and tests for their AI models. This includes subjecting their models to “red-team” tests, which simulate adversarial hack attacks to test the robustness of the models’ safety measures. A key aim of the stress tests is to mitigate the potential threat that AI systems pose to critical infrastructure, as well as chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.
Companies that have signed onto the pledge also commit to developing their AI models in a way that incorporates privacy-preserving features for users while also abiding by guidelines that will be developed by the Department of Commerce to protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud and deception.
President Biden’s executive order also tasked federal agencies to develop various AI-related standards and guidelines.
The White House said that various agencies—including the Commerce Department, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense—have released new guidelines for preventing misuse of AI, expanded AI testbeds, and addressed AI-related vulnerabilities in government networks.