Days after Elon Musk and thousands of other tech experts signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of AI systems, UNESCO said: request to the government Adopt an ethical framework for AI systems worldwide. This framework aims to ensure that AI systems are created and deployed in a way that protects the civil liberties of people, cultural differences, and the natural world.
🔴Breaking News🔴@UNESCO Calls upon States to implement their ethical recommendations immediately; #artificial intelligence.
That’s after more than 1,000 technicians called for a pause in the most intense training this week. #AI system.
— UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Science #Culture 🇺🇳 (@UNESCO) March 30, 2023
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said: “We need to move forward and ensure the objectives of the recommendations are met. The world needs stricter ethical rules for artificial intelligence. This is what we need to do.” It is a challenge of our time,” he said. The UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of AI sets an appropriate normative framework. All Member States have endorsed this Recommendation in November 2021.
UNESCO has expressed concern about the growing impact of AI tools, including discrimination and stereotypes, gender inequality, fighting disinformation, privacy rights, personal data protection, and human and environmental rights. future.
The ethical framework consists of four core concepts: preserving human autonomy and dignity, preventing harm, ensuring fairness, and ensuring accountability. These principles attempt to guide the creation and use of artificial intelligence systems in an ethical, transparent, and accountable way.
UNESCO is asking governments to fund research and development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that adhere to this ethical paradigm.
UNESCO recommends Member States to develop readiness assessment tools to help determine the competencies and skills needed in their workforces in order to regulate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in a strong and responsible manner. I put it out.
UNESCO calls on all countries to work together to develop an ethical framework for artificial intelligence, and more than 40 countries have already worked with the organization to put its advice into action and to check and test AI at the national level. setting the balance.
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