The US vice president and top Biden administration advisors have held a meeting with CEOs from the AI industry to discuss concerns about the risks associated with AI. The CEOs of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and AI startup Anthropic attended the meeting. Notably, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was absent. The meeting focused on the transparency of AI systems, the importance of evaluating and validating the safety of AI, and ensuring AI is secured from malicious actors. The government and tech CEOs agreed that more work is needed to develop and ensure appropriate safeguards and protections for AI. The Biden Administration announced it would put aside $140 million to launch seven new National AI Research Institutes and release a draft policy on how the US government will use AI. (Cointelegraph)