South Korea, Britain host AI summit with safety top of agenda

South Korea and Britain kick off a serious worldwide summit on synthetic intelligence in Seoul this week, the place governments plan to press tech companies on AI security.

The assembly is a follow-up to the inaugural world AI security summit at Bletchley Park in Britain final 12 months, the place dozens of nations voiced their fears to main AI companies concerning the dangers posed by their tech.

Security is once more on the agenda on the AI Seoul Summit beginning Tuesday and representatives are anticipated from main AI companies, together with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Google DeepMind, French AI agency Mistral, Microsoft and Anthropic.

“As with any new technology, AI brings new risks, including deliberate misuse from those who mean to do us harm,” South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak stated Monday in a joint article.

“However, with new models being released almost every week, we are still learning where these risks may emerge,” they stated within the piece, revealed by the South Korean each day JoongAng Ilbo and Britain’s i newspaper.

The stratospheric success of ChatGPT quickly after its 2022 launch sparked a gold rush in generative AI, with tech companies around the globe pouring billions of {dollars} into creating their very own fashions.

Generative AI fashions can generate textual content, photographs, audio and even video from easy prompts, and its proponents have heralded them as a breakthrough that may enhance lives and companies around the globe.

However critics, rights activists and governments have warned that they are often misused in all kinds of conditions, together with the manipulation of voters via faux information tales or so-called “deepfake” footage and movies of politicians.

Dramatic modifications

Many have known as for worldwide requirements to control the event and use of AI.

“When we meet with companies at the AI Seoul Summit, we will ask them to do more to show how they assess and respond to risk within their organizations,” Yoon and Sunak wrote.

“We will also take the next steps on shaping the global standards that will avoid a race to the bottom.”

The Seoul summit comes days after OpenAI confirmed that it had disbanded a workforce dedicated to mitigating the long-term risks of superior AI.

The 2-day summit will likely be partly digital, with a mixture of closed-door classes and a few open to the general public in Seoul.

Nevertheless, a gaggle of six South Korean civil society organizations, together with the outstanding Peoples Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, criticized the summit’s organizers for not together with extra creating nations.

“It would be beneficial to discuss international norms for AI in a more open forum where all countries and diverse stakeholders from around the world can participate equally, rather than in an elite club of a few developed countries,” they stated in a joint assertion on Monday.

Along with security, the summit will focus on how governments may also help spur innovation, together with into AI analysis at universities.

Individuals will even take into account methods to make sure the expertise is open to all and may assist in tackling points reminiscent of local weather change and poverty.

“It is just six months since world leaders met at Bletchley, but even in this short space of time, the landscape of AI has changed dramatically,” Yoon and Sunak stated.

“The pace of change will only continue to accelerate, so our work must accelerate too.”

France will host the subsequent AI security summit.

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