Countries including the UK, United States and China on Wednesday agreed the"need for international action" as political and tech leaders gathered for the world's first summit on artificial intelligence safety.
Sunak called the declaration a"landmark achievement" while King Charles III, in a video message to the summit, urged international collaboration to combat the"significant risks" of unchecked development. The announcement came shortly after the UK and United States both said they were setting up their own institutes to assess and mitigate the risks of the fast-emerging technology.
Donelan told AFP the event was a"historic moment in mankind's history" after earlier announcing two further summits, in South Korea in six months' time, and in France next year. Donelan accepted that the summit"isn't designed to produce a blueprint for global legislation", but was instead"designed to forge a path ahead,... so that we can get a better handle and understanding on the risk of frontier AI".While the potential of AI raises many hopes, particularly for medicine, its development is seen as largely unchecked.
"If he were serious about safety, Rishi Sunak needed to roll deep and bring all of the UK majors and regulators in tow and he hasn't," she told a San Francisco news conference.