SEOUL: World leaders are anticipated to undertake a brand new settlement on synthetic intelligence once they collect just about Tuesday to debate AI’s potential dangers but in addition methods to advertise its advantages and innovation. The AI Seoul Summit is a follow-up to November’s inaugural AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park in the UK, the place taking part international locations agreed to work collectively to comprise the doubtless “catastrophic” dangers posed by galloping advances in AI.
The 2-day assembly — co-hosted by the South Korean and UK governments — additionally comes as main tech corporations like Meta, OpenAI and Google roll out the newest variations of their AI fashions.
On Tuesday night, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are to satisfy different world leaders, trade leaders and heads of worldwide organisations for a digital convention.
The net summit will likely be adopted by an in-person assembly of digital ministers, consultants and others on Wednesday, in accordance with organisers.
“It’s simply six months since world leaders met at Bletchley, however even on this brief area of time, the panorama of AI has modified dramatically,” Yoon and Sunak mentioned in a joint article printed in South Korea‘s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper and the UK’s on-line inews website on Monday.
“The tempo of change will solely proceed to speed up, so our work should speed up too.”
Whereas the UK assembly centred on AI issues of safety, the agenda for this week’s gathering was expanded to additionally embrace “innovation and inclusivity,” Wang Yun-jong, a deputy director of nationwide safety in South Korea, informed reporters Monday.
Wang mentioned members will subsequently “focus on not solely the dangers posed by AI but in addition its optimistic elements and the way it can contribute to humanity in a balanced method.”
The AI settlement will embrace the outcomes of discussions on security, innovation and inclusivity, in accordance with Park Sang-wook, senior presidential adviser for science and technology for President Yoon.
The leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies — the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain – had been invited to the digital summit, together with leaders of Australia and Singapore and representatives from the UN, the EU, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and Samsung, in accordance with South Korea’s presidential workplace.
China would not plan to take part within the digital summit although it’ll ship a consultant to Wednesday’s in-person assembly, the South Korean presidential workplace mentioned. China took half within the UK summit.
Of their article, Yoon and Sunak mentioned they plan to ask corporations to do extra to indicate how they assess and reply to dangers inside their organisations.
“We all know that, as with every new know-how, AI brings new dangers, together with deliberate misuse from those that imply to do us hurt,” they mentioned. “Nevertheless, with new fashions being launched nearly each week, we’re nonetheless studying the place these dangers could emerge, and one of the best methods to handle them proportionately.”
The Seoul assembly has been billed as a mini digital summit, serving as an interim assembly till a full-fledged in-person version that France has pledged to carry.
Governments all over the world have been scrambling to formulate rules for AI even because the know-how makes fast advances and is poised to remodel many elements of day by day life, from training and the office to copyrights and privateness. There are issues that advances in AI might take away jobs, trick individuals and unfold disinformation.
Builders of essentially the most highly effective AI programs are additionally banding collectively to set their very own shared strategy to setting AI security requirements. Fb dad or mum firm Meta Platforms and Amazon introduced Monday they’re becoming a member of the Frontier Mannequin Discussion board, a bunch based final 12 months by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
In March, the UN Normal Meeting permitted its first decision on the protected use of AI programs. Earlier in Might, the US and China held their first high-level talks on synthetic intelligence in Geneva to debate handle the dangers of the fast-evolving know-how and set shared requirements to handle it.
The 2-day assembly — co-hosted by the South Korean and UK governments — additionally comes as main tech corporations like Meta, OpenAI and Google roll out the newest variations of their AI fashions.
On Tuesday night, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are to satisfy different world leaders, trade leaders and heads of worldwide organisations for a digital convention.
The net summit will likely be adopted by an in-person assembly of digital ministers, consultants and others on Wednesday, in accordance with organisers.
“It’s simply six months since world leaders met at Bletchley, however even on this brief area of time, the panorama of AI has modified dramatically,” Yoon and Sunak mentioned in a joint article printed in South Korea‘s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper and the UK’s on-line inews website on Monday.
“The tempo of change will solely proceed to speed up, so our work should speed up too.”
Whereas the UK assembly centred on AI issues of safety, the agenda for this week’s gathering was expanded to additionally embrace “innovation and inclusivity,” Wang Yun-jong, a deputy director of nationwide safety in South Korea, informed reporters Monday.
Wang mentioned members will subsequently “focus on not solely the dangers posed by AI but in addition its optimistic elements and the way it can contribute to humanity in a balanced method.”
The AI settlement will embrace the outcomes of discussions on security, innovation and inclusivity, in accordance with Park Sang-wook, senior presidential adviser for science and technology for President Yoon.
The leaders of the Group of Seven rich democracies — the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain – had been invited to the digital summit, together with leaders of Australia and Singapore and representatives from the UN, the EU, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and Samsung, in accordance with South Korea’s presidential workplace.
China would not plan to take part within the digital summit although it’ll ship a consultant to Wednesday’s in-person assembly, the South Korean presidential workplace mentioned. China took half within the UK summit.
Of their article, Yoon and Sunak mentioned they plan to ask corporations to do extra to indicate how they assess and reply to dangers inside their organisations.
“We all know that, as with every new know-how, AI brings new dangers, together with deliberate misuse from those that imply to do us hurt,” they mentioned. “Nevertheless, with new fashions being launched nearly each week, we’re nonetheless studying the place these dangers could emerge, and one of the best methods to handle them proportionately.”
The Seoul assembly has been billed as a mini digital summit, serving as an interim assembly till a full-fledged in-person version that France has pledged to carry.
Governments all over the world have been scrambling to formulate rules for AI even because the know-how makes fast advances and is poised to remodel many elements of day by day life, from training and the office to copyrights and privateness. There are issues that advances in AI might take away jobs, trick individuals and unfold disinformation.
Builders of essentially the most highly effective AI programs are additionally banding collectively to set their very own shared strategy to setting AI security requirements. Fb dad or mum firm Meta Platforms and Amazon introduced Monday they’re becoming a member of the Frontier Mannequin Discussion board, a bunch based final 12 months by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
In March, the UN Normal Meeting permitted its first decision on the protected use of AI programs. Earlier in Might, the US and China held their first high-level talks on synthetic intelligence in Geneva to debate handle the dangers of the fast-evolving know-how and set shared requirements to handle it.
