How Tech Companies Can Make Recent AI Commitments Count

David Morar and Prem Trivedi wrote for Tech Policy Press about the importance of actively involving civil society, setting clear timelines, and designing enforcement mechanisms to ensure that the recent AI-related commitments made by tech companies have real impact.

Building an effective voluntary commitments process requires incorporating inputs from civil society into the lifecycle of companies’ internal governance process. It also requires identifying specific timelines for the deliverables, along with establishing auditing and monitoring mechanisms.