Sixteen leading companies in the development of artificial intelligence (IA) if withpromehad on Tuesday (21), in a global meeting, develop technology safely. This comes at a time when regulators are racing to keep up with rapid innovation and emerging risks.
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Among the companies are American leaders Google, Meta, Microsoft e OpenAI, as well as firms from China, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates.
They were supported by a broader statement from the G7 (the world's seven largest economies), the European Union, Singapore, Australia and South Korea, in a virtual meeting led by the British Prime Minister Rishi sunak and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The presidential office of South Korea stated that countries agreed to prioritize AI safety, innovation and inclusion.
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“We must ensure the safety of AI to… protect the well-being and democracy of our society,” Yoon said., citing concerns about risks such as deepfakes (fake videos created by AI).
Participants highlighted the importance of interoperability between governance structures, plans for a network of security institutes and engagement with international bodies to build on the agreement from the first meeting and better address risks.
Other companies withpromesecurity concerns include Zhipu.ai (backed by China's Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan and Xiaomi), the UAE Technology Innovation Institute, Amazon, IBM and Samsung Electronics.
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They are withpromehave to publish security frameworks to measure risks, avoid models where risks cannot be sufficiently mitigated, and ensure governance and transparency.
“It is vital to obtain international agreement on the 'red lines' where AI development becomesaria dangerously unacceptable to public safety,” said Beth Barnes, founder of METR, a group that promotes the safety of AI models, in response to the statement.
Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, known as a “godfather of AI,” welcomed the commitments but noted that voluntary commitments needariam be accompanied by regulation.
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Since November, the discussion about regulating AI has shifted from long-term doomsday scenarios to more practical concerns, such as the use of AI in areas like medicine and finance, Aidan Gomez, co-founder of large language modeling company Cohere, said on the sidelines. of the dome.
China, which co-signed the “Bletchley Agreement” on collective AI risk management during the first meeting in November, did not attend Tuesday's session but will participate in an in-person ministerial session on Wednesday, it said a South Korean presidential official.
Elon Musk da Tesla, the former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt, the president of Samsung Electronics Jay Y. Lee and other AI industry leaders attended the meeting.
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The next meeting will be in France, officials said.
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