US and like-minded countries including India need to work together to shape course of AI: Dr Arati Prabhakar

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artificial intelligence and make sure that it is used responsibly, Dr Arati Prabhakar, the Science Advisor to President Joe Biden, has said. Her remarks on Friday came as the Biden administration roped in several IT giants like Google and Microsoft to manage the risks of the new AI tools even as they compete over the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). “The work that we are doing includes working with companies to hold them accountable and there's some important progress on that today," Indian-American engineer Prabhakar told PTI in an interview.

«We're also working on executive actions that we can take within existing law, and the President is considering an executive order that we think can really boost our ability to deal with AI's harms and also start using it for good,” she said. She said the administration will also continue to work with Congress on bipartisan legislation as they start putting it forward. »Then critically and underpinning all of this is the work that we're doing globally with our international partners and allies, including with India,” Prabhakar said.

Prabhakar, 64, who is serving as the 12th director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Science Advisor to the President since October 3, 2022, said artificial intelligence is a global technology. «It's everywhere. Everyone is participating and it's really affecting, it's going to affect everyone's lives and we want to make sure that like-minded countries work together to shape the course of AI,” she said in response to a question.