Trump says AI firms will self-police, so employers should too

Trump has dismissed industry calls for a slowdown, citing the need to stay ahead of China, and told the United Nations General Assembly last week that his administration would oppose global efforts to control AI. Amodei has urged developers to slow down.

Alvin Wang Graylin, a senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, welcomed the pledge but told Al Jazeera it lacks independence, since the companies wrote the principles and hire the auditor. David Krueger, an AI expert at the University of Montreal in Canada, called the accord vague, Al Jazeera reported. David Sacks, a Silicon Valley investor who previously served as Trump’s AI czar, defended it as better than an international agreement he doesn’t expect to materialize.

Other critics were blunter.

“What other trillion-dollar industry marks its own homework?” Toby Walsh of the UNSW AI Institute in Sydney, Australia, said in comments to Al Jazeera.

What employers using these AI tools should do now

The accord is a voluntary pledge by vendors, and it doesn’t change the laws that apply to employers using their tools. HRD America has reported on HR leaders facing personal legal risk over AI tools.