AI could destabilize societies
The AI Generative technologies – capable of producing text, sounds or images in a matter of seconds – have progressed exponentially in recent years and The next generations of these models will appear in the summer.
They carry great hopes for the fields of medicine and education, but they could also destabilize societies, allow the manufacture of weapons or elude human control, warns the British government.
Closed-door meetings
After this first day dedicated to the potential dangers of a AI more advanced, high-level political representatives are expected at Bletchley Park on Thursday.
Among them, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, and the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni.
American billionaire and star entrepreneur Elon Musk, present at the summit on Wednesday, will exchange with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday evening.
“Our goal is to establish a framework for better understanding (…), and for there to be at least one independent arbiter who can look at what companies in the world are doing.” AI and sound the alarm if something worries you,” Musk told the press.
“My hope for this summit is that there is an international consensus on the initial understanding of the AI advanced,” he added.
In an open letter published on Tuesday, several of the “founding fathers” of this technology, such as Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, advocated for “the development and ratification of an international treaty on the AI“, to reduce the “potentially catastrophic risks that advanced systems pose to humanity.”
The challenge is to establish safeguards without hindering innovation for laboratories. AI and the technology giants.
The EU and the United States, unlike the United Kingdom, chose the path of regulation.
Last week, several companies such as OpenAI, Meta (Facebook) or DeepMind (Google) agreed to make public some of their security policies. AI at the request of the United Kingdom.
In an open letter addressed to Rishi Sunak, a hundred international organizations, experts and activists regretted that this summit is being held behind “closed doors”, dominated by technology giants and with limited access for civil society.