Companies Maintain AI Deployments With a Focus on Governance

Good morning. Companies show little sign of slowing down their deployment of AI despite rising concerns that the most advanced models pose serious risks.

In recent days, the heads of leading AI developers have called for new limits and controls on advanced AI research, following a series of cybersecurity breaches and high-profile resignations designed to raise alarm bells. As concerns about potential existential risks reach a new level, the discussion of AI within the corporate world remains measured.

The WSJ Technology Council Summit kicked off Monday afternoon in New York City with an informal poll of the audience during a town hall conversation. In a show of hands, only a few people said they feared that AI could kill us all in the next decade, while about half of attendees indicated that they were in support of slowing down AI development at the frontier and prioritizing safety guardrails.

But that slowdown didn’t apply to the deployment of AI within their organizations, where not all models are at the cutting edge and even the most advanced of them tend to be relatively well understood and tested by experience.