US, China and 26 Other Nations Agree To Co-operate Over AI Development

Twenty-eight countries including the US, UK and China have agreed to work together to ensure artificial intelligence is used in a "human-centric, trustworthy and responsible" way, in the first global commitment of its kind. From a report: The pledge forms part of a communique signed by major powers including Brazil, India and Saudi Arabia, at the inaugural AI Safety Summit. The two-day event, hosted and convened by British prime minister Rishi Sunak at Bletchley Park, started on Wednesday. Called the Bletchley Declaration, the document recognises the "potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm" to be caused by advanced AI models, but adds such risks are "best addressed through international co-operation." Other signatories include the EU, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya and Nigeria.

The communique represents the first global statement on the need to regulate the development of AI, but at the summit there are expected to be disagreements about how far such controls should go. Country representatives attending the event include Hadassa Getzstain, Israeli chief of staff at the ministry of innovation, science and technology, and Wu Zhaohui, Chinese vice minister for technology. Gina Raimondo, US commerce secretary, gave an opening speech at the summit and announced a US safety institute to evaluate the risks of AI. This comes on the heels of a sweeping executive order by President Joe Biden, announced on Monday, and intended to curb the risks posed by the technology.

not like the british to indulge in a bit of pomp

[conorjh]

Called the Bletchley Declaration

bit presumptious lol thinking this will go down in history at all. wont be remembered next month

The communique represents the first global statement on the need to regulate the development of AI,

if you ignore the previous dozen or so "open letters"...

all of it still as vague as ever. you wouldnt think that current bleeding edge AI is some shitty chatbot

Re: not like the british to indulge in a bit of po

[shibbie]

and - Harmful deep fakes

China

[christoban]

LOL. China. "Agreed."

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[christoban]

They win a third and fourth time when we actually follow through, and they just don't. Same as Russia has always done. They complained constantly about our missile defense, while pursuing their own.

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[RitchCraft]

They have a saying in China, "If you can cheat, then cheat". About sums it up.

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[christoban]

It's the most amoral country in the world. They have an entire generation of people they call "The Lost Generation" who Moa told "you can do anything you want, morality is a social construct," and they did. Now they are just thieves and killers, thanks to postmodernist, Marxist thinking in action. Now the far left is bringing that same evil to the western world, with the intention to destroy it.

Just 168 countries to go

[Tony Isaac]

If you're an AI developer who wants to escape the rules generated by this "cooperation," you have plenty of places to choose from, who aren't part of the agreement.

Pinky swear

[Albinoman]

No one needs to make a formal agreement unless you're already planning on using it in a bad way. Just don't do it and no agreement is even necessary. Does anyone believe that any country capable of weaponizing AI won't do it?

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[evanh]

I'm bemused as to what any of it means. I have my doubts that anyone does know. It just seems all hand-wavy.

It's not like so-called AI can actually make real decisions. They may as well be using a random number generator.

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[cusco]

I would be very very surprised if the Pentagon hasn't already weaponized it, they were one of the early funders of AI research. I am quite skeptical that anything useful will come of this other than some politicians being kept busy and out of the way for a while.