A new report commissioned by the U.S. State Department is warning governments are running out of time to implement comprehensive safeguards on the development and regulation of advanced artificial intelligence — and that the future of the human species could be at stake.AMECA, an AI robot from IVADO Labs, at the All In artificial intelligence conference in Montreal on Thursday, September 28, 2023.
"There's this risk that these systems start to get essentially dangerously creative. They're able to invent dangerously creative strategies that achieve their programmed objectives while having very harmful side effects. So that's kind of the risk we're looking at with loss of control," Gladstone AI CEO Jeremie Harris, one of the authors of the report, said Thursday in an interview with CBC'sA new report is warning the U.S.
The report proposes a series of urgent actions nations, beginning with the U.S., should take to safeguard against these catastrophic risks, including export controls, regulations and responsible AI development laws.Canada currently has no regulatory framework in place that is specific to AI. At a press conference on Friday, Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne was asked why — given the severity of the warnings in the Gladstone AI report — he remains confident that the government's proposed AI bill is equipped to regulate the rapidly advancing technology.
"That's not what the experts have been saying in testimony at committee and it's just not reality," said Rempel Garner, whoAIDA was introduced before OpenAI, one of the world's leading AI companies, unveiled ChatGPT in 2022. The AI chatbot represented a stunning evolution in AI technology.