HIROSHIMA: G7 Leaders agreed on the need for governance in the field of generative AI in line with G7 values and expressed concern about the disruptive potential of rapidly expanding technology.
In a statement to the G7 summit on Friday, leaders said governments would hold ministerial-level consultations on the issue in what they called the “Hiroshima process” and would present the results by the end of the year.
To ensure that AI development is human-centric and trustworthy, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for cooperation towards secure cross-border data flows and asked for financial contributions to such efforts. promised. Calls for tighter regulation echo those from industry and government leaders around the world, after OpenAI’s ChatGPT sparked a technology race among companies.
Worryingly, this advance in generating authoritative and humanized text, images and videos could become a powerful tool for disinformation and political turmoil if left unchecked. It means that there is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, along with International Business Machine privacy chief, called on U.S. senators this week to regulate AI more tightly.
Separately, the World Health Organization said in a statement this week that adopting AI too quickly could risk medical errors, undermine trust in the technology and slow adoption.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak wants to develop policies to manage the risks and benefits of AI and has invited Altman and others to the UK. The European Union is taking steps towards regulating AI tools, requiring companies to ensure that users know they are interacting with AI, and the realities of AI to identify individuals in public. We are asking for a ban on the use of time. Altman said he welcomed the emergence of a new regulator as a way for the United States to maintain its leadership in the field.
The Japanese government tends to prefer to oversee AI with soft guidelines rather than strict regulatory laws like the EU.
“The point is that if there is a serious problem, the government should ultimately crack down with tougher laws,” said Hiroki Habuka, a senior associate at the Wadwani AI Advanced Technology Center. “But if the law is too detailed, it will not keep up with technological change.”
He said it would be difficult to set international standards for regulating generative AI at this time because of the different values that society considers appropriate, even among G7 countries.
Kyoko Yoshinaga, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center’s Technical Law Policy Institute, said it was important to involve as many countries as possible in the debate on AI regulation, including low-income countries.
