UKto us, European unionThe This China In the first international declaration to deal with emerging technology, it acknowledged that artificial intelligence poses a catastrophic risk to humanity. Twenty-eight governments signed the Bletchley Declaration on the first day of the British-hosted AI Security Summit this week.
The report did not endorse the creation of an international testing center in the United Kingdom, as some members of the British government had hoped. However, the document provides a blueprint for future international cooperation, with security meetings planned South Korea Within six months and France Within a year.
“The potential for serious, catastrophic harm, whether intentional or even accidental, to arise from the most critical capabilities of these AI models remains high,” the report said.
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UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, It welcomed the new document, calling it “a historic achievement in which the world’s biggest AI powers agree on the urgency of understanding the risks of AI”.
“For the first time, we now have countries agreeing that we must not just look independently, but collectively, to address the risks,” UK Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan said.
Speaking on the sidelines of the meeting, tech billionaire Elon Musk said, “For the first time, we have a situation where we’re going to be smarter than the smartest human… It’s not clear to me that we can. indeed control such a thing.” a thing.”
So far, however, there has been little international understanding of a universal set of AI terms or who should develop them.
The U.S. used the meeting to announce a separate U.S. agency for AI security at the National Institute of Science and Technology, which it called “a neutral third party to create better standards,” and said the agency would be created on its own. Provisions for safety, security and testing. The EU is in the process of approving a draft law on AI, which aims to create a set of regulatory principles and introduce rules for specific technologies such as live facial recognition.
