After calls for a moratorium by some tech experts and business leaders, Rishi Sunak said the UK would take the lead in limiting the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Sunak said AI has the potential to benefit and transform society, but it must be deployed “safely and reliably, with guardrails in place.”
The prime minister’s decision came after tech leaders including Twitter owner Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak added their names to nearly 30,000 signatures in a letter calling for a moratorium on important projects. The comments sound like a more cautious approach than before.
The letter addresses concerns about the creation of a digital mind, fraud, disinformation and risks to employment, and calls for a moratorium until the capabilities and dangers of systems such as ChatGPT-4 are properly studied and mitigated. .
Sunak has been an advocate for AI, emphasizing its benefits over risks, with the government announcing a light regulatory program in March that appeared to contain no new laws or enforcement agency proposals. .
He also launched a £100m UK task force last month to develop “safe and reliable” applications for AI, aiming to make the country a tech powerhouse by 2030. rice field.
But on the flight to Japan to attend the G7 summit where AI will be discussed, Sunak said a global approach to regulation is needed. “We deliberately took an iterative approach because technology is evolving rapidly and we want our regulations to evolve with us,” he said. “Going forward, that will include coordinating with allies … you can expect it to form part of the conversation at the G7 as well.
“I think the UK has a track record of being a leader and bringing people together, especially when it comes to technical regulation in the Online Safety Bill…and again, the companies themselves have worked with us.” , expected us to provide such guardrails as we continue to do for AI. “
The United States is also pushing discussions on AI at its summit in Hiroshima, where leaders could discuss disinformation and threats to infrastructure posed by fast-moving technologies represented by the ChatGPT system.
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Tenth place says they don’t think a pause is the solution, but they are moving towards thinking about a global framework. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced Thursday that it will examine the underlying systems, or underlying models, behind AI tools. A legal expert has described the first survey as a “pre-warning” to the industry, and the results are expected to be released in September.
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the ‘godfather of AI’, announced he was leaving Google earlier this month to speak more freely about the dangers of the technology, while outgoing British government chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said ministers “In order to speak more freely about the dangers of AI, we believe that in the face of the profound social and economic changes that AI can bring about, the impact on employment could be as great as the Industrial Revolution.” Stated.
