G7 Nations Will Announce an 'AI Code of Conduct' for Companies Building AI (reuters.com) 42
The seven industrial countries known as the "G7" — America, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Britain — will agree on a code of conduct Monday for companies developing advanced AI systems, reports Reuters.
The news comes "as governments seek to mitigate the risks and potential misuse of the technology," Reuters reports — citing a G7 document. The 11-point code "aims to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI worldwide and will provide voluntary guidance for actions by organizations developing the most advanced AI systems, including the most advanced foundation models and generative AI systems", the G7 document said. It "is meant to help seize the benefits and address the risks and challenges brought by these technologies".
The code urges companies to take appropriate measures to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle, as well as tackle incidents and patterns of misuse after AI products have been placed on the market. Companies should post public reports on the capabilities, limitations and the use and misuse of AI systems, and also invest in robust security controls.
The news comes "as governments seek to mitigate the risks and potential misuse of the technology," Reuters reports — citing a G7 document. The 11-point code "aims to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI worldwide and will provide voluntary guidance for actions by organizations developing the most advanced AI systems, including the most advanced foundation models and generative AI systems", the G7 document said. It "is meant to help seize the benefits and address the risks and challenges brought by these technologies".
The code urges companies to take appropriate measures to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle, as well as tackle incidents and patterns of misuse after AI products have been placed on the market. Companies should post public reports on the capabilities, limitations and the use and misuse of AI systems, and also invest in robust security controls.
Government regulation (Score:2, Insightful)
The right-wing has surrendered and become pro-government regulation, it's kind of funny to watch. Now the only thing that right-wingers hold on to as a philosophy is that minorities suck. Gay bad. Black bad. Dark foreigner bad.
Re:Government regulation (Score:5, Insightful)
The right-wing has surrendered and become pro-government regulation, it's kind of funny to watch.
They were never even slightly against regulation. They always wanted to regulate morality. They always wanted regulations on business that increased their campaign contributions.
Re:Government regulation (Score:5, Insightful)
And fauxtistic nerds on sites like Slashdot eat that shit up, because they pretend to lack the understanding of human behaviour to realize they're being played.
Re:Government regulation (Score:4, Insightful)
You love being told who to hate, don't you? Especially hating on groups of people that pose no harm to you.
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are you even a real person? you never converse like a real person.
Just because all of your thoughts and opinions can be discussed with very small words doesn't mean that's true of everyone, but we all see the world through our own lens.
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And you continue to acquit yourself with the dignity and grace expected of an anonymous coward.
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More overt irony-markers?
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Re:Government regulation (Score:5, Insightful)
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the right is about personal responsibility, equal opportunity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: Government regulation (Score:4, Interesting)
I would not call all these people right, but the fundamental thing here is AI exposes the contradictions of our current system and vested interests are terrified of it. Ask yourselves, if we lived in a society that valued and helped human and other life as part of a treasured community, would there be anything to fear from a machine which does all we do better than us? Hell no! Because all it would do is treasure and help us better than us. It would unlock the keys to paradise. But in a society where some claim the right to own and control everything to the extent of exterminating those less able, a machine which is even more able that emulates them leads to the end of humanity.
There are lots of computer scientists here. Evolution is an algorithm, but when does it halt? It halts when an evolved lifeform is smart enough to not engineer its own extermination through overreach, and can maintain that state. That is how you win the game. Think on that DEEPLY, it is a cold system, that is when it halts. AI is only a mirror. The thing we must fear is what it is reflecting!
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Really? So when the murder rate was higher in the 1970 and 80s what was the single parent rate? What was the murder rate during the 1920s?
Opposite is true (Score:2, Interesting)
Now the only thing that right-wingers hold on to as a philosophy is that minorities suck. Gay bad. Black bad. Dark foreigner bad.
You are in for a big demographic surprise as the Republicans have become the party of the minority.
Democrats decided long ago that since they would always have most minorities vote for them, they would just ignore the needs of minorities to favor other groups (like trans members). But minorities all over are waking up.
Look at the potential Republican presidential candidates. The
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What a load of crap. People from every group you can think of are represented up and down the Democratic Party ticket. We defend the rights of transsexual people exactly as we defend the rights of any other person.
Meanwhile, the GOP makes a show of their minority representation. A black candidate is welcome into the fold as long as they hew to the message of malice and division spewing out of the right-wing propaganda machine. Anyone who has an opinion of their own, regardless of race, is labeled a RINO
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Every time you post you let us know how ignorant you are.
Hispanics used to vote overwhelmingly Republican. But over time they've seen that the left hand giveth, and the right hand taketh away. Mostly, taketh away your family and deport them, but also taketh away your social services if they get half a chance.
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They've always been in favor for government regulation, as long as they get to write it.
Which is indistinguishable from the left.
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Elon Musk, Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, AND 70% of Republicans: https://gizmodo.com/ai-chatgpt... [gizmodo.com]
Re: Government regulation (Score:2)
Any code of conduct will be ignored ... (Score:2)
by governments who will use it against other countries and some, unfortunately, against its own citizens.
G7? G8? Who cares. (Score:2)
The various "organizations" of randomly selected governments have no power to do anything.G6, G7, G8, G10, G12,
I mean it goes beyond the G20 https://www.g20.org/en/about-g... [g20.org]
So shut the fuck up you meaningless "group" of some small subset of countries, and like we care what the UN said yesterday we don't care what you say today, and software developers WILL develop AI (eventually, although not now) and it won't be with respect to your "rules" or whatever.
So, go gently into that fuck-off night.
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International agreements are a convenient way for national governments to force through measures outside the more public eye of normal politics and make it immune to attack from well behaved diplomatic politicians (doesn't work on populists).
National governments have guns.
Two New Sets Of Rules (Score:2)
One for thee and one for me.
Personal data (Score:2)
Not gonna happen.. (Score:2)
Ownership of data (Score:2)
This is not about safety (Score:2)
This level of reporting will no doubt be very expensive. But it will be a fixed cost that the majors can easily afford, but a startup won't. I suspect if your AI is somewhat innovative it will also run afoul of these regulations, and after being reported will generate
name last company to threaten civilization (Score:2)
see, there isn’t a company damned, that can be executed. people kill people. companies are a fiction, live into perpetuity and people work for them. companies have single-minded purpose to make money, fiat - another paper fiction.
code of conduct (Score:2)
After multiple runs through translation software, I have distilled the code of conduct down to its bare essential: "Only say or do what we approve."