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President Trump has a new plan for keeping artificial intelligence safe and he's putting much of the responsibility in the companies building it
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Trump met with some of the industry's biggest names at the White House Tuesday and announced a new voluntary safety agreement
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The companies are committing to internal controls and outside reviews as they develop more powerful AI systems
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Well, there's a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that
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But the self-regulation is very important. Trump says the agreement will be morally binding and plans to name someone to oversee it
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That's well short of the government guardrails some AI leaders and lawmakers have been calling for
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But Democratic Senator Mark Warner says self-policing isn't enough. He pushed the Senate Tuesday to require safety testing and incident reporting for the most advanced AI systems, saying
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Are we really going to trust the industry to self-police on something that goes beyond what is happening
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I'm not an AI doomer, but the ability to have these AI agents take over, shut down part of the financial system, is real
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We should heed the call from the experts. Earlier in the day, Trump also launched America.gov, a new AI-powered portal designed to give people one place to search for federal information and services
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With America.gov, the federal government no longer stands in your way and it stands only at your service
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And that's what we're doing. We're simplifying it. We're glamorizing it. We're making it what it should be
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Trump signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to begin integrating their public services into America.gov within 90 days
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For now, the site can search government information. The plan is to eventually let people do things like renew passports or enroll in Medicare directly through it
