The UK government will host the world’s first artificial intelligence security summit at Bletchley Park, home to the codebreakers who cracked the code that ended World War II.
The government announced Thursday. press release It announced that it would host a conference to convene international governments, leading AI companies, and research experts to discuss the “safe development and use of frontier AI technologies.”
According to the UK government, the event will take place on 1st and 2nd November and will “examine the risks of AI, particularly at the forefront of development, and discuss ways to mitigate risks through internationally coordinated action”. .
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement on Thursday: “To make the most of artificial intelligence’s extraordinary opportunities, we must firmly understand and manage the risks so that it can be developed safely in the years to come. I have to do it,” he said.
“By combining the strengths of our international partners, a thriving AI industry and an academic community of experts, we can ensure the rapid international action needed for the safe and responsible development of AI around the world. .”
It is not yet clear which companies, governments and researchers will attend the event.
The frontrunners in the AI race are mainly US giants such as Microsoft, a prominent backer of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Google, which owns generative AI chatbot Bard, and Meta, which is responsible for the Llama open-source large-scale language model. A technology company.
The UK is home to several leading companies involved in AI research, development and commercial production, including DeepMind, a UK AI lab, and Synthesia, a digital media platform that allows users to create AI-generated videos.
The famous Bletchley Park building was home to WWII codebreakers who helped crack the secret Enigma code used by the German government to direct surface-to-air operations on the Eastern Front in 1941 Did.
Led by British mathematician, computer scientist, and cryptographer Alan Turing, the operation successfully decoded messages on German military strategy. Turing is widely considered the father of theoretical computer science and his AI.
The UK tech sector has been in a slump of late, following a drop in venture capital investment. Total capital flowing into the UK tech industry plummeted by 57% to $7.4 billion in the first half of 2023, according to data from venture capital firm Atomico.
The UK has established itself as a global technology leader and has begun to embrace innovations such as digital currencies, blockchain and the so-called ‘Web3’.
AI is the latest technology that the country is targeting and trying to establish as a global standard. In June, Sunak touted the UK as “the geographic home of global AI safety regulation.” But there are steep mountains that Britain must climb before it can compete with major powers such as the United States and China.
The United States is by far the world leader when it comes to AI, with big companies pouring resources into the technology. China is also deepening its AI efforts, with Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu launching their own generative AI chatbots, while Beijing has already set rules governing these services.
“The UK is well positioned to play this role as home to top AI talent and big players like DeepMind. We are AI optimists and with the right guardrails, We believe this technology can bring real change to society,” said CEO Felim Bradley. Prolific, a company that offers paid surveys on the quality of AI developers’ technology, told CNBC in an email.
“A successful summit will require sufficient focus on topics such as fair and ethical treatment of AI workers (such as data annotators), sourcing and transparency of data used to build AI models, and risks. It is important that it is hit.” Bias is introduced into these systems because of the way they are trained. ”
AI is rapidly being applied in areas ranging from healthcare to financial services to cybersecurity. Generative AI algorithms, in particular, pose many risks to society, with experts warning of job losses, misinformation and possible cyber breaches.
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