In an effort to map out a safe course for the quickly developing technology, China pledged at a British conference on Wednesday to collaborate with the US, the EU, and other nations to jointly control the risk posed by artificial intelligence.
Governments and international organizations are racing to create regulations and protections in response to certain technology executives and political leaders’ warnings that the world faces an existential threat from AI if it is not regulated.
A Chinese vice ministry joined tech titans including Elon Musk of Tesla and ChatGPT’s Samuel Altman at Bletchley Park, the site of Britain’s WWII code-breakers, in an initial for Western efforts to oversee its safe growth.
The proclamation outlined a two-pronged strategy aimed at identifying hazards of common concern, deepening scientific knowledge of them, and creating international policies to reduce them.
the Chinese vice minister of technology and science, Wu Zhaohui, announced during the two-day summit’s opening session that Beijing was prepared to further up cooperation on AI safety in order to support the creation of a worldwide “governance framework”.
“The nations regardless of their dimensions and scope have the same ability to create and use AI,” he stated.
When Microsoft-backed OpenAI (MSFT.O) released ChatGPT to the public in November of last year, concerns about the potential effects AI could have on the economy and society erupted.
Now, officials from governments are working with AI businesses to map out a path forward, as the latter worry about being burdened by regulations before artificial intelligence reaches its full capacity.
The billionaire Elon told reporters, “I don’t know what the fair rules are necessarily, but then’ve got to start with understanding if you do oversight,” and he suggested that a “independent referee” may be called in to raise the alarm when dangers arise.
Frontier AI refers to extremely powerful general-purpose models that constitute a threat to human rights. Although the European Union has focused its regulation of AI on data protection and surveillance and how they can affect rights for humans, the British summit is examining other, allegedly existential concerns.