BLETCHLEY PARK: US Vice President Kamala Harris and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are set to hitch delegates on Thursday at a UK summitcentered on containing dangers from fast advances in cutting-edge synthetic intelligence. Sunak organised the first-ever AI Security Summit as a discussion board for officers, specialists and the tech trade to raised perceive “frontier” AI that some scientists warn might pose a danger to humanity’s very existence.
The assembly, held at a former codebreaking spy base close to London, kicked off on Wednesday with an settlement signed by 28 nations, together with the US and China, to work towards “shared settlement and accountability” about AI dangers, and a plan to carry additional conferences in South Korea and France over the following yr.
Binding regulation for AI is just not among the many summit’s objectives. Sunak has mentioned that the UK’s method shouldn’t be to hurry into regulation however to totally perceive AI first.
Harris didn’t attend the assembly’s first day, as a substitute giving a speech on the US embassy the place she mentioned the world must appearing straight away to deal with “the total spectrum” of AI dangers, not simply existential threats comparable to large cyberattacks or AI-formulated bioweapons.
She introduced a brand new US AI security institute to attract up requirements for testing AI fashions for public use. Sunak had additionally proposed his personal AI security institute, with an analogous function, days earlier.
Sunak has additionally proposed a worldwide skilled panel on AI, much like the United Nations local weather change panel. He is anticipated to supply extra particulars on Thursday and can also be scheduled to debate AI with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a dialog that can be performed on the social community X, which Musk owns, after the summit ends.
The assembly, held at a former codebreaking spy base close to London, kicked off on Wednesday with an settlement signed by 28 nations, together with the US and China, to work towards “shared settlement and accountability” about AI dangers, and a plan to carry additional conferences in South Korea and France over the following yr.
Binding regulation for AI is just not among the many summit’s objectives. Sunak has mentioned that the UK’s method shouldn’t be to hurry into regulation however to totally perceive AI first.
Harris didn’t attend the assembly’s first day, as a substitute giving a speech on the US embassy the place she mentioned the world must appearing straight away to deal with “the total spectrum” of AI dangers, not simply existential threats comparable to large cyberattacks or AI-formulated bioweapons.
She introduced a brand new US AI security institute to attract up requirements for testing AI fashions for public use. Sunak had additionally proposed his personal AI security institute, with an analogous function, days earlier.
Sunak has additionally proposed a worldwide skilled panel on AI, much like the United Nations local weather change panel. He is anticipated to supply extra particulars on Thursday and can also be scheduled to debate AI with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a dialog that can be performed on the social community X, which Musk owns, after the summit ends.
