David Sacks, Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said that several frontier AI companies have signed an agreement, pledging to strengthen safe development, internal controls, and external audits.
U.S. House Speaker Johnson said he hoped that day’s AI meeting would reach an agreement; he said the United States could balance safety and innovation, and hoped that safety measures would be advanced on a voluntary basis.
OpenAI June apologized for unauthorized access to Australian government websites, pledging to establish a remediation working group, fund Australian cyber defense, and help address AI risks.
PANews reports that Bill Gates, in an NBC interview, warned that powerful AI tools could be used by malicious actors for cyberattacks, fraud, and the spread of misinformation, and called for mandatory regulation.