It’s been a busy week for AI policymakers. The EU has sealed the deal on its AI Act. Meanwhile, in Seoul, South Korea, 16 world-leading companies have signed the “Frontier AI Safety Commitments,” and a group of countries have promised to work together on mitigating risks associated with the technology.
To say that the past year was the one when the world woke up to AI would be an understatement. The launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 catapulted a previously behind-the-scenes technology into conversations around the dinner table and parliamentary halls alike.
And all of a sudden, an apocalyptic future ruled by machines went from sci-fi concept to a potential real-world scenario. At least if one is to believe the many researchers, interest groups, and even the CEOs of AI companies who have signed doomsday petitions to slow down development of the technology until sufficient safeguards can be implemented.
Not that such concerns seem to have done much to reduce the speed with which tech companies have been inciting each other to roll out new AI products.
Mitigating AI risk of varying nature
Beyond extinction by algorithm, there are also more immediate threats from the proliferation of AI, such as bias, surveillance, and mass distribution of misinformation. To that effect, politicians have been at least attempting to wrap their minds around what can actually be done to somehow contain a horse that has already bolted, judging by appearances.
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Source : The Next Web