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At WAIC’s Intelligent Society Forum, experts share their views to address the ethical, legal, and governance risks and challenges associated with AI development.
Artificial Intelligence Ethics Guidelines and Risk Assessment were presented in Shanghai’s Yangpu District during the ongoing 2023 World Congress on Artificial Intelligence.
Tongji University presented its guidelines and evaluation at WAIC’s Intelligent Society Forum held at the waterfront in Yangpu District, with the participation of many domestic and foreign AI and Internet companies.
This guideline aims to address the risks associated with ChatGPT-style AI-infrastructured models and to encourage the implementation of ethical guidelines.
The university and Chinese tech giant Baidu also jointly released a white paper on legal liability for autonomous driving, focusing on legal issues surrounding fully autonomous L4 and L5 driving applications.
“AI has the potential to accelerate technological innovation, boost productivity and drive economic growth…But as we embrace an intelligent society, we recognize the risks and believe that AI is everything. We have to make sure it benefits people,” said assistant director Gabriela Ramos. UNESCO Social and Human Sciences General.
Officials announced the AI Compliance Service Center in Yangpu District at the forum.
AI technology has the potential to deepen the inequalities and divisions that exist in the world and society. It is widely recognized that AI systems can reproduce social discrimination through data biases and exacerbate underrepresented groups and marginalization of women, Ramos said in a forum video speech.
Furthermore, she pointed out that AI language models, for example, contribute a lot of carbon emissions.
UNESCO has produced recommendations on the ethics of AI that encourage critical thinking, asking questions and seeking better answers, she said.
This global agreement has been adopted by 103 Member States. We uphold important values and principles such as proportionality, non-discrimination, fairness and sustainability.
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Calman Lucero, a researcher at Yale University, introduced AI governance in the US at the forum.
Other experts and academics also shared their views on tackling the ethical, legal, and governance risks and challenges associated with AI development.
According to Yangpu government officials, the focus was on establishing fair and standardized digital governance and exploring operational models, legal regulations, standard specifications, policy systems and institutional mechanisms of an intelligent society.
