IBM, Palantir and Salesforce Agree to White House’s AI Rules

IBM, Salesforce and spy tech manufacturer Palantir will sign onto the White House’s new artificial intelligence rules that form basic guardrails around the technology but largely leave the companies to self-govern themselves, according to Bloomberg. 

The Biden administration guidelines ask the companies to add watermarks to AI-generated content, conduct new internal tests and allow external audits, among other rules. The White House initially unveiled the guidelines in July when it said many of the industry’s largest players—including Google, OpenAI and Microsoft—had agreed to them. 

Other new signatories include Scale AI and Stability AI, two startups that both received letters last month from Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.), who chairs a Senate intelligence committee, asking why they hadn’t agreed to the White House commitments. 

The White House will reportedly make an official announcement about the new signees Sept. 12, a day before a day before the Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) convenes the first of a series of AI forums.