The AI Agreement: A Day in the Life of AI in South Korea and the United Kingdom, according to Park Sang-wook, Secretary of Science and Technology for President Yoon
The AI agreement will include the outcomes of discussions on safety, innovation and inclusivity. according to Park Sang-wook, senior presidential adviser for science and technology for President Yoon.
The meeting was hosted by South Korean and U.K. governments and came as major tech companies were releasing the latest versions of their artificial intelligence models.
The leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized democracies, the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Britain, plus leaders of Australia and Singapore, were invited to the virtual summit.
The landscape of Artificial Intelligence has changed greatly, even though leaders from all over met at the same time, according to an article in South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper. The pace of change must continue to accelerate so that our work can also.
“Recent advances in AI carry exciting, life-changing potential for our society, but only if we do the hard work to mitigate the very real dangers,” Secretary Raimondo said in a statement released ahead of the announcement. It is crucial that we get this right and that we work with our partners to ensure the rules of the road on Artificial intelligence are written by societies that uphold human rights, safety and trust.
The U.K. AI Summit is a Global Network of Artificial Intelligence Institutes (I): China, Japan, Canada, Singapore, and the EU
China doesn’t plan to participate in the virtual summit though it will send a representative to Wednesday’s in-person meeting, the South Korean presidential office said. The U.K summit was attended by China.
One challenge for the US, alluded to in Raimondo’s statement, is that some national governments may not be eager to fall in line with its approach to AI. She said the US, the UK, Japan, Canada, Singapore, and the European AI Office would work together as the founding members of a “global network of AI safety institutes.”
The Korea meeting was billed as a mini virtual summit, until a full in-person meeting is held by France.
Developers of the most powerful AI systems are also banding together to set their own shared approach to setting AI safety standards. Facebook parent company Meta Platforms and Amazon announced Monday they’re joining the Frontier Model Forum, a group founded last year by Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI.
The US is widely seen as the global leader in artificial intelligence, thanks to companies like OpenAI, Google, and Meta. The US government is asking other countries for help in managing the risks of artificial intelligence.
The Commerce Department wouldn’t say whether China had been invited to join the network. Fears that China will use advanced AI to empower its military or threaten the US led first the Trump administration and now the Biden administration to roll out a series of restrictions on Chinese access to key technology.