US President Joe Biden has highlighted the uncertainty around the safety of artificial intelligence (AI) and called on technology firms to ensure their products are secure before releasing them to the public. Speaking at a meeting with science and technology advisors, Biden acknowledged the potential benefits of AI in tackling issues such as disease and climate change but stressed the need to address possible risks to society, national security, and the economy. He also reiterated his call for non-partisan privacy laws to limit personal data gathered by tech firms and prohibit child-targeted advertising. The Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Policy has urged the US Federal Trade Commission to prevent OpenAI from releasing new commercial versions of GPT-4, a language model with human-like capacity to create written responses to prompts.

(By AMAKA NWAOKOCHA)