The current AI development is too fast. UK Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden claimed this during his speech at the UN General Assembly on Friday, Sept. 22.
Because of this, he is now urging other countries to cooperate and establish a new international regulatory system that can regulate artificial intelligence.
UK Deputy Prime Minister Warns AI Development Too Fast
Culture Minister Oliver Dowden during a visit to the Royal Academy of Dance on October 12, 2020 in London, England. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has announced that £257 million from the Government's £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund.
Dowden explained that the ongoing AI advancements are too fast for regulators, claiming that global regulation is falling behind.
"The starting gun has been fired on a globally competitive race in which individual companies as well as countries will strive to push the boundaries as far and fast as possible," he said via The Guardian.
The UK deputy prime minister compared the past and present, saying that global leaders have previously responded to technological and scientific developments with retrospective regulations.
But, in the present times, Dowden said that although governance, guardrails, and regulations need to be developed in parallel with the tech progress, lawmakers cannot keep up with current advances.
Because of the serious risks posed by AI developments, Dowden said the world should create an international regulatory system.
Risks of Artificial Intelligence
This photograph taken in Toulouse, southwestern France, on July 18, 2023 shows a screen displaying the logo of Bard AI, a conversational artificial intelligence software application developed by Google, and ChatGPT.
Numerous experts already explained why the rising AI technologies could harm humanity. For example, they warned that artificial intelligence can be used to generate fake videos, sounds, images, as well as texts.
This fake content is quite indistinguishable from real ones. Researchers warned that they can be used as a powerful misinformation tool. Recently, an AI-generated image of the pope in white puffer jacket went viral on social media platforms, especially Twitter.
Based on reports, many people believed that the fake photo was real. This is just one of the scenarios where AI was used to spread disinformation.
BBC reported that AI and tech companies are also aware of the potential risks artificial intelligence poses. Many of them even agree that regulations should be created to control the use of AI tools.
However, Chatham House's Yasmin Afina said achieving a quick international agreement would be hard. She said AI differs greatly from other dangerous technologies, such as nuclear weapons.
"AI is so complex, so different as a technology, I don't think that it will be easy to negotiate something that people will agree on," explained Afina.
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