The Government is planning to lay out a series of announcements and fresh guidance to companies on how they can take advantage of artificial intelligence while guarding against its potential dangers HugoGye reports
Over the next year regulators in various sectors will be expected to lay out guidance to companies on how to make the most of AI without exacerbating its potential dangers. The Cabinet Office is considering whether to add the technology to its “national risk register” which records the primary threats to UK society and imposes obligations to plan for worst-case scenarios involving them.
In the spring the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology published a detailed white paper on AI which focussed primarily on making the most of its benefits. Since then Mr Sunak has had a partial change of heart, choosing to place more emphasis on the risks. This week a coalition of leading researchers and entrepreneurs working on AI published a warning that the risk of human extinction as a result of runaway artificial super-intelligence must be “a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”.
Some other experts have dismissed that claim but all major Western allies have committed to working together to mitigate the risks and enforce a global set of norms which will stop AI from being developed in an uncontrolled way.
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