was an emotional moment. The MIT professor and AI researcher was behind a letter this year calling for a pause in development of advanced systems. It didn’t happen, but it was a crucial contribution to the political and academic momentum that resulted in the Bletchley gathering.
The declaration starts with a reference to AI providing “enormous global opportunities” with potential to “transform and enhance human wellbeing, peace and prosperity” – but the technology needs to be designed in a way that is “human-centric, trustworthy and responsible”. There is also an emphasis on international cooperation, including a reference to an “internationally inclusive network of scientific research” on AI safety.
The UK might not get world leaders to look at the camera, but it’s got them to agree on creating an AI safety framework., technology partner at the international law firm Morrison Foerster, says the declaration will “likely further drive some level of international legislative and governmental consensus around key tenets for regulating AI”.
who attended the summit. However, it won’t be a UN-hosted project and the UK government-backed AI safety institute will host Bengio’s office for the report.A group of governments attending the summit and major AI firms agreed to collaborate on testing of their AI models before and after their public release. The 11 government signatories included the EU, the US, the UK, Australia, Japan – but not China. The eight companies included Google, ChatGPT developer OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta.