16 companies ensure safety at AI Summit

Sixteen AI companies, including Alphabet’s Google, Meta, and OpenAI, are working to securely develop this technology. | Photo provided by: Reuters

Sixteen AI companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, as well as companies in China, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates, are working to securely develop the technology.

The announcement, made in a UK government statement on Tuesday, comes after South Korea and UK hosts World AI Summit in Seoul at a time when governments are struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace of AI innovation.

The agreement is an increase over the number of commitments made at the first World AI Summit six months ago, the statement said.

Zhipu.ai, backed by Chinese tech giants Alibaba, Tencent, Meituan and Xiaomi, as well as the UAE Institute of Technology and Innovation, have also pledged to publish safety frameworks on how they measure risk in frontier AI models16 was included in the company.

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The companies, which also include Amazon, IBM and Samsung Electronics, said in a statement that they will not develop or deploy AI models unless they can adequately mitigate risks and will ensure governance and transparency around their approach to AI safety. It is said that he voluntarily promised to

Beth Burns, founder of METR, a non-profit organization that supports AI model safety, said, “It is extremely difficult to reach international agreement on a ‘red line’ where AI development becomes unacceptably dangerous to public safety. It’s important.”

of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Summit in Seoul This week we will aim to address broader risks, building on the broad agreement reached at the first summit in the UK.

Tesla’s Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mingle with some of their harshest critics at November summit, while China joins US and others to jointly manage AI risks He co-signed the Bletchley Declaration regarding this issue.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol will oversee a virtual summit later on Tuesday, followed by a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

British Technology Secretary Michelle Donnellan told Reuters on Tuesday that this week’s summit will discuss “building on commitments from businesses and also looking at how the (AI Safety) Institute can work together.” That’s what he said.

Aidan Gomez, co-founder of Kohia, a major language modeling company, said that since November, discussions about AI regulation have shifted from long-term doomsday scenarios to “realistic” scenarios such as how to use AI in fields such as healthcare and finance. The situation has shifted to “concern.”

Gomez said industry players wanted AI regulations that would provide clarity and safety on where companies should invest, while avoiding lock-in to big technologies.

Analysts say countries such as the UK and the US have set up state-backed AI safety laboratories to evaluate AI models, and other countries are expected to follow suit, with AI companies looking at jurisdictions. There are also concerns about interoperability between the two.

Representatives from the Group of Seven major democracies (G7) will participate in the virtual summit, with Singapore and Australia also invited, a South Korean presidential official said.

China will not participate in the virtual summit, but will attend Wednesday’s in-person ministerial meeting, the official said.

South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said AI industry leaders, including Musk, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee, are scheduled to attend the summit.