By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration plans to convene a worldwide security summit on synthetic intelligence, it stated on Wednesday, as Congress continues to wrestle with regulating the expertise.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will host on Nov. 20-21 the primary assembly of the Worldwide Community of AI Security Institutes in San Francisco to “advance global cooperation toward the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence.”
The community members embody Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Singapore, Britain, and america.
Generative AI – which might create textual content, photographs and movies in response to open-ended prompts – has spurred pleasure in addition to fears it may make some jobs out of date, upend elections and doubtlessly overpower people and have catastrophic results.
Raimondo in Could introduced the launch of the Worldwide Community of AI Security Institutes throughout the AI Seoul Summit in Could, the place nations agreed to prioritize AI security, innovation and inclusivity. The aim of the San Francisco assembly is to jumpstart technical collaboration earlier than the AI Motion Summit in Paris in February.
Raimondo stated the purpose is “close, thoughtful coordination with our allies and like-minded partners.”
“We want the rules of the road on AI to be underpinned by safety, security, and trust,” she added.
The San Francisco assembly will embody technical specialists from every member’s AI security institute, or equal government-backed scientific workplace, to debate precedence work areas, and advance international collaboration and information sharing on AI security.
Final week, the Commerce Division stated it was proposing to require detailed reporting necessities for superior AI builders and cloud computing suppliers to make sure the applied sciences are protected and may face up to cyberattacks.
The regulatory push comes as legislative motion in Congress on AI has stalled.
President Joe Biden in October 2023 signed an govt order requiring builders of AI methods posing dangers to U.S. nationwide safety, the economic system, public well being or security to share the outcomes of security assessments with the U.S. authorities earlier than they’re publicly launched.
