UN to discuss AI risks in 1st formal meet on the new tech - report
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The UN Security Council will hold its first formal talks on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in New York this week, with the U.K. to call for an international dialogue about its impact on global peace and security, Reuters reported.
Governments globally are mulling how to mitigate the risks of emerging AI technology, which could reshape economies and international security arena.
U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will chair the discussion on Tuesday, the report added.
Last week, China published interim measures for managing generative Artificial Intelligence (gen AI) services, which will go into effect Aug. 15. Among the measures proposed, are that gen AI services must not generate incitement to subvert state power, overthrow the socialist system, endanger national security and interests.
In June, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres backed a potential proposal by some Ai executives for the creation of an international AI watchdog, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Gen AI services have taken the world by storm, since the launch of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT. The different types of large language models (LLMs) can provide, content and image generation services, to name a few.
Companies around the world have launched their own LLMs, Baidu's (BIDU) Ernie Bot, Alibaba's (BABA) Tongyi Qianwen and Tongyi Wanxiang. Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Bard, OpenAI's DALL-E, Midjourney Inc.'s Midjourney, to name a few.
According to a study, in 2022, U.S. organizations released 37 LLMs compared to China's 28. This year (as per a report in May) Chinese organizations lead with 19 LLMs, versus 18 by U.S. entities.
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