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As fears grow about the disruption that artificial intelligence (AI) may bring, India, along with 27 other countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, and the European Union, have signed a declaration pledging to work on the assessment of risks associated with AI at the first-ever ‘AI Safety Summit’ hosted by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
They signed the declaration on the first day of the summit in Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire on November 1.
“We welcome the international community’s efforts so far to cooperate on AI to promote inclusive economic growth, sustainable development and innovation, to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms, and to foster public trust and confidence in AI systems to fully realise their potential,” the declaration reads.
“We welcome relevant international efforts to examine and address the potential impact of AI systems in existing fora and other relevant initiatives. They recognize that addressing the protection of human rights, transparency, explainability, fairness, accountability, regulation, safety, appropriate human oversight, ethics, bias mitigation, privacy, and data protection is crucial,” it added.
The Bletchley Declaration emphasized the importance of AI in a variety of daily life situations, including housing, employment, transportation, education, healthcare, accessibility, and justice. It was stated that the application of AI in these industries is anticipated to increase in the future.
Meanwhile, speaking at the UK summit, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, stated that by allowing innovation to outpace regulation, countries faced misinformation and weaponization of the internet, as represented by social media, and that this should not happen with AI in the future.
“We have learned in the last 10-15 years as governments that by allowing innovation to get ahead of regulation, we opened ourselves to the toxicity and the misinformation and the weaponisation that we see on the Internet today, represented by social media,” said the minister. This is not what “we should chart for the coming years in terms of AI”.
Source:IANS
