Massive Tech CEOs talk about tech manufacturing and AI with Biden and Modi

The CEOs of U.S. Massive Tech firms met with President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate cooperation between the 2 international locations on creating synthetic intelligence and superior manufacturing.

Biden and Modi had been joined by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and Apple's Tim Prepare dinner on Friday to debate plans to increase their efforts to fabricate extra tech in India. Apple not too long ago shifted a few of its manufacturing to construct extra iPhones in India as a substitute of China.

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"Our international locations are taking innovation and cooperation to a brand new degree," Biden mentioned. "Thanks largely to the parents round this desk."

"We'd like your assist, and I am speaking to CEOs round this desk, Indian and American. We'd like your assist to grab the second, to assist handle the dangers to our societies, our economies, and to our nation's nationwide safety," the president added. "Innovation and collaboration are hardly ever with out obstacles, and so that you elevate our ambitions, and I need you to tell us what stands in the way in which of our ambitions."

Biden additionally known as on the businesses to step up relating to conversations round AI. "We'd like your assist to construct guardrails round rising applied sciences in order that they're reliable, safe, and uphold our shared values and human rights," Biden mentioned.

Biden's push for cooperation round AI coincides with efforts organized by Congress to start understanding and proposing future laws.

Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a brand new five-point framework for writing AI-related legal guidelines on Wednesday and deliberate to host boards to make sure the legislative department correctly understands AI. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ken Buck (R-CO) have launched laws to kind a fee on AI.

The Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise introduced it will launch a working group to deal with the authorized and regulatory issues round generative AI, reminiscent of ChatGPT.