World’s biggest tech companies promised to work collaboratively to guard against the dangers of artificial intelligence as they wrapped up a two-day AI summit which was attended by various governments, in Seoul.
Sector leaders from South Korea’s Samsung Electronics to Google took pledge at the event, co-hosted with Britain, to reduce the risks and develop new AI models.
The commitment codified in a so-called Seoul AI Business Pledge Wednesday plus a new round of safety commitments announced the previous day, build on the consensus reached at the inaugural global AI safety summit at Bletchley Park in Britain last year.
Tuesday’s commitment observed companies including OpenAI and Google DeepMind promise to share how they assess the risks of their technology such as those deemed intolerable and how they will ensure such thresholds are not crossed.
But experts warned it was hard for regulators to understand and manage AI when the sector was developing so rapidly.
‘I think that’s a really, really big problem’, said Markus Anderljung, head of policy at the Centre for the Governance of AI, a non-profit research body based in Oxford, Britain.
He added, ‘Dealing with AI, I expect to be one of the biggest challenges that governments all across the world will have over the next couple of decades’.
Markus further added, ‘The world will need to have some kind of joint understanding of what are the risks from these sort of most advanced general models’.
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