Chief Executive Officer said artificial intelligence companies, including his own, should be subject to mandatory testing requirements to ensure their technologies are safe for the public before release.

"I think we absolutely have to make the testing mandatory, but we also need to be really careful about how we do it," Amodei said in response to a question on the topic Wednesday at an AI safety summit in San Francisco hosted by the US Departments of Commerce and State.

Amodei's remarks came after the US and UK AI Safety Institutes released the results of their testing of ...