Key Points
The declaration, announced at the AI Safety Summit organized by the British government and held at the historic World War II code-breaking site, Bletchley Park, also calls for international collaboration to define and explore the risks from the development of more powerful AI models, including large language models such as those powering chatbots like ChatGPT...
This is a landmark achievement that sees the worlds greatest AI powers agree on the urgency behind understanding the risks of AIhelping ensure the long-term future of our children and grandchildren, the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, said in a statement...
The venue for the Summit paid homage to Alan Turing, the British mathematician who did foundational work on both computing and AI, and who helped the Allies break Nazi codes during the Second World War by developing early computing devices..
The ink on the future-looking declaration was barely dry before the US asserted its leadership role in developing and guiding AI, as vice president Kamala Harris delivered a speech warning that AI hazardsincluding deepfakes and biased algorithmsare already here..
The people I met included Yoshua Bengio, a pioneer of deep learning who says he is on a mission to alert governments to the risks of more advanced AI; Percy Liang, who leads Stanfords Center for Research on Foundation Models; Rumman Chowdhury, an expert on red teaming AI systems for vulnerabilities who told me that this is still a nascent discipline; and Demis Hassabis, who as CEO of Google DeepMind is leading the search giants AI projects..
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