How government can help build a better OpenAI, ChatGPT and AI in general
Beyond policy, proactive engagement and better data management will make government a good steward and partner in responsible artificial intelligence efforts.
The U.S. federal government is working to ensure those building artificial intelligence do so with good intentions. It’s also proactively providing guidance on how agencies should document and responsibly use AI in its service to the public.
The Biden Administratioin is actively working with leading AI companies “to uphold the highest standards to ensure that innovation doesn’t come at the expense of Americans’ rights and safety.”
As part of these efforts, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is charged with facilitating the conversation, supporting the National AI Advisory Committee, whose committee members include “experts with a broad and interdisciplinary range of AI-relevant experience from across the private sector, academia, non-profits, and civil society.”
The White House has published a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights focused on five key principles. And it has issued an executive order aimed at “harnessing AI for good and realizing its myriad benefits.”
“This endeavor demands a society-wide effort that includes government, the private sector, academia, and civil society,” says the executive order.
Albeit in varied, unstructured formats, it has started to publicly catalog U.S. government AI use cases.
There is even an official government website, AI.gov, to centralize the Biden Administration’s efforts around artificial intelligence.
Rightfully so, most of the AI energy led by government is around policy, however, as perhaps the largest creator and maintainer of data, it has a responsibility to also proactively contribute to its success.
Initiatives such as OpenAI’s data partnership is an example of industry’s efforts to open the lines of data to government so that it can do its part in fulfilling the objectives the Biden Administration is championing.
The effort, says OpenAI, is “intended to enable more organizations to help steer the future of AI and benefit from models that are more useful to them, by including content they care about.”