The British government will this week welcome foreign political leaders, technology industry figures, experts and others to a first-of-its-kind summit on artificial intelligence (AI).
According to the French news agency AFP, the meeting will be attended by Prime Minister Rishi Sonic, US Vice President Kamala Harris, European Union President Ursula van der Leyen and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. The meeting will focus on growing concerns about the implications of AI.
Artificial intelligence The latest models have raised concerns about everything from jobs and cyber-attacks to humans losing control over their own designed systems.
Rishi Sonik and other leaders have argued that current knowledge and regulation of frontier AI is likely inadequate for the problems it will create.
In a speech earlier this week British “My vision, and our ultimate goal, should be to work towards a more international approach to security where we work with partners to ensure that artificial intelligence systems are safe before they are used,” the leader said. ‘
“We will work hard to agree on the first international statement on the nature of these threats,” he said, suggesting the creation of a panel of experts on the model of an international panel on climate change.
London insists it is taking the lead on AI at the behest of US President Joe Biden because both countries have some leading companies in the field.
But it has reportedly been forced to scale back its ambitions on some ideas, such as launching a new regulatory body.
Bletchley Park
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is one of the only world leaders to attend the conference, which starts on Wednesday.
“It’s also a great achievement to have all the right people come together to discuss this important issue,” Rishi Sonik’s spokesman told reporters this week.
The summit will be held at Bletchley Park, the iconic site where Britain’s leading codebreakers broke Nazi Germany’s ‘Enigma’ code, helping to end World War II.
It is also home to the National Museum of Computing, the world’s largest collection of working historic computers.
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From smartphones to airports, artificial intelligence is already ubiquitous in everyday life, but has been accelerated in recent years by the development of technologies like ChatGPT.
Aldo Faisal, a professor of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, told a briefing this month that “it’s clear to me what will happen this year, the next two, three years and 200 years.”
Although the potential of artificial intelligence has raised hopes, particularly in medicine, its development is seen as largely uncontrolled.
In his speech, Rishi Sonik warned that in artificial intelligence, cyber, wrong information And fraud risks have the potential to eliminate thousands of jobs in a variety of sectors, including the arts and media.
He stressed the need for countries to have ‘a shared vision about the threats we face,’ which is not currently the case.
Dialogue
Harris, van der Leyen, Guterres and Maloney have confirmed their attendance but the absence of world leaders, particularly the G7 countries, has dominated the discussions at the summit in the UK.
Rishi Sonik’s spokesman asserted that a ‘group of suitable countries, suitable companies’ would be present.
China will be present, but it is not clear at what level.
The invitation to Beijing comes as a surprise amid rising tensions with the West and accusations of technological espionage.
Rishi Sonik has said ‘No serious AI strategy can be developed without at least trying to involve all the world’s leading powers in AI.’
Although Britain sees itself as the driving force behind international cooperation on artificial intelligence, its emphasis on potential disasters has frustrated some players in the field.
They would prefer to focus on existing artificial intelligence problems, such as the lack of transparency in the models companies design and their racial or gender bias, rather than the greater risk expressed by Rishi Sonik.
Objectors also say that the common ethical code Britain wants to establish could also be against the interests of artificial intelligence laboratories and technology companies, mostly Chinese and American.
That could limit the chances of anything meaningful coming out of this week’s summit.
Hameed Huddi, Professor of Human-Centred Systems at Imperial College London’s Department of Computing, says the time is right for a global ‘conversation’ on artificial intelligence.
He said, ‘Do we need regulation in this space? Or should we leave it to the market and the companies and see what happens next?’
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2024-10-06 02:10:20
