South Korea and the United Kingdom will co-host the second global AI conference. The astonishing rate of invention has led to an increasing range of threats that governments are finding harder and harder to keep up with.
The second global AI conference will be co-hosted by South Korea and the United Kingdom this week in Seoul. Governments are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with the growing range of hazards due to the astounding pace of innovation that has occurred since the first AI summit in November.
On Tuesday, there will be a virtual summit presided over by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. There will be demands for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence, despite stark differences in the potential effects of the technology on humankind.
“Global AI standards alone can prevent a race to the top,” Sunak and Yoon stated in a joint statement”. Although positive efforts have been made to shape global AI governance, significant gaps still remain,” they noted.
Although the AI Safety Summit was the name of the November event, the challenges have since grown in scope. According to the summit’s website, which opens a new tab, the talks starting on Tuesday are now referred to as the AI Seoul Summit and will cover three key topics: AI safety, innovation, and inclusivity.
A global AI safety report, which opened a new tab issued on Friday, stated that “risks such as large-scale labor market impacts, AI-enabled hacking or biological attacks, and society losing control over general-purpose AI could emerge,” while there is debate over the likelihood.
“However, the future of AI will be determined by the decisions made by governments and societies,” the research, which was supported by experts from over 30 countries, stated.
The paper acknowledges the growing array of concerns associated with the rapidly developing technology, including existential threats to humanity, inequity in AI, data scarcity, exploitation of copyrighted material, and environmental effects from AI data centers’ massive electricity use.
China co-signed the “Bletchley Declaration, opens new tab” on cooperatively addressing AI risks alongside the United States and others, while Tesla’s Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman brushed elbows with some of their harshest opponents during the meeting hosted by the United Kingdom in November.
This time, it was not yet known who would be present at the online summit on Tuesday or the in-person meeting on Wednesday that would be presided over by ministers from the UK and South Korea.
According to the event website, executives from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft (MSFT.O), Meta (META.O), IBM (IBM.N), and Jack Clark, co-founder of the AI safety and research company Anthropic, are expected to attend a separate AI forum being hosted in South Korea on Wednesday.
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