Delegates from 28 countries, including the US and China, agreed today in the UK to work together to contain the potentially catastrophic risks posed by rapid advances in artificial intelligence.
The focus of the first international Security Summit on Artificial Intelligence, which is being held today and tomorrow in Bletchley Park, a former spy base near London, is cutting-edge, "frontier" artificial intelligence, which some scientists warn could pose a risk to survival. of humanity.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that the adopted declaration represents a "significant achievement", as the world's biggest powers in the field of artificial intelligence agreed on the urgency of understanding the risks of artificial intelligence.
US Vice President Kamala Harris called on Great Britain and other countries to act even further and faster, emphasizing the transformations that artificial intelligence is already bringing and the need for the responsibility of technology companies, and through legislation.
At the US embassy in London today, Harris said the world needs to act now to address the "full spectrum" of risks from artificial intelligence, not just existential threats such as large-scale cyber attacks or biological weapons designed by artificial intelligence.
Sunak, a tech-loving former banker who wants the UK to be a hub for computing innovation, described the AI Security Summit as the start of a global conversation on the safe development of AI.
Harris is due to attend the summit tomorrow, along with government officials from more than 20 countries, including Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia and China.
The countries pledged to work on "joint agreement and responsibility" on the risks of artificial intelligence and agreed to hold a series of meetings.
South Korea will host a mini virtual summit on artificial intelligence in six months, and a new one will be held in France in a year, with officials in attendance.
China's Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Wu Zhaohui, said AI technology is "uncertain and inexplicable" and "lacks transparency".
"It brings risks and challenges in terms of ethics, security, privacy and fairness," Wu said, noting that Chinese President Xi Jinping launched the Global Initiative for Artificial Intelligence Governance last month.
The director of the Tesla company, the American billionaire Elon Musk, is supposed to talk to Sunak about artificial intelligence in front of the cameras tomorrow. The tech billionaire was among the signatories of a statement earlier this year warning of the dangers of artificial intelligence to humanity.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, executives from US artificial intelligence companies and influential scientists are also meeting at Bletchley Park, a once top-secret code-breaking base considered the birthplace of modern computing.
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