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G7 Nations Will Announce an 'AI Code of Conduct' for Companies Building AI (reuters.com) 42

Posted by EditorDavid from the performance-review dept.
The seven industrial countries known as the "G7" — America, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Britain — will agree on a code of conduct Monday for companies developing advanced AI systems, reports Reuters.

The news comes "as governments seek to mitigate the risks and potential misuse of the technology," Reuters reports — citing a G7 document. The 11-point code "aims to promote safe, secure, and trustworthy AI worldwide and will provide voluntary guidance for actions by organizations developing the most advanced AI systems, including the most advanced foundation models and generative AI systems", the G7 document said. It "is meant to help seize the benefits and address the risks and challenges brought by these technologies".

The code urges companies to take appropriate measures to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks across the AI lifecycle, as well as tackle incidents and patterns of misuse after AI products have been placed on the market. Companies should post public reports on the capabilities, limitations and the use and misuse of AI systems, and also invest in robust security controls.
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  • The right-wing has surrendered and become pro-government regulation, it's kind of funny to watch. Now the only thing that right-wingers hold on to as a philosophy is that minorities suck. Gay bad. Black bad. Dark foreigner bad.

    • Re:Government regulation (Score:5, Insightful)

      by drinkypoo ( 153816 ) <drink@hyperlogos.org> on Sunday October 29, 2023 @06:20PM (#63964232) Homepage Journal

      The right-wing has surrendered and become pro-government regulation, it's kind of funny to watch.

      They were never even slightly against regulation. They always wanted to regulate morality. They always wanted regulations on business that increased their campaign contributions.

    • Re:Government regulation (Score:5, Insightful)

      by The Evil Atheist ( 2484676 ) on Sunday October 29, 2023 @06:26PM (#63964242)
      The right-wing of modern times has been about freedom - for themselves. They're the same bastard lot, but they've merely found a way to sell themselves as a "friend of the common man" by suggesting that their freedom will trickle down to the peons.

      And fauxtistic nerds on sites like Slashdot eat that shit up, because they pretend to lack the understanding of human behaviour to realize they're being played.
      • That's fairly wrong. The right-wing cares about freedom and liberty as a function of being left alone by predatory government regulation not just for themselves, but for all citizens. Having said that, no AI company is going to follow a single letter of whatever G7 regs they come up with.

    • Re: Government regulation (Score:4, Interesting)

      by javaman235 ( 461502 ) on Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:10PM (#63964320)

      I would not call all these people right, but the fundamental thing here is AI exposes the contradictions of our current system and vested interests are terrified of it. Ask yourselves, if we lived in a society that valued and helped human and other life as part of a treasured community, would there be anything to fear from a machine which does all we do better than us? Hell no! Because all it would do is treasure and help us better than us. It would unlock the keys to paradise. But in a society where some claim the right to own and control everything to the extent of exterminating those less able, a machine which is even more able that emulates them leads to the end of humanity.
      There are lots of computer scientists here. Evolution is an algorithm, but when does it halt? It halts when an evolved lifeform is smart enough to not engineer its own extermination through overreach, and can maintain that state. That is how you win the game. Think on that DEEPLY, it is a cold system, that is when it halts. AI is only a mirror. The thing we must fear is what it is reflecting!

    • Opposite is true (Score:2, Interesting)

      by SuperKendall ( 25149 )

      Now the only thing that right-wingers hold on to as a philosophy is that minorities suck. Gay bad. Black bad. Dark foreigner bad.

      You are in for a big demographic surprise as the Republicans have become the party of the minority.

      Democrats decided long ago that since they would always have most minorities vote for them, they would just ignore the needs of minorities to favor other groups (like trans members). But minorities all over are waking up.

      Look at the potential Republican presidential candidates. The

      • What a load of crap. People from every group you can think of are represented up and down the Democratic Party ticket. We defend the rights of transsexual people exactly as we defend the rights of any other person.

        Meanwhile, the GOP makes a show of their minority representation. A black candidate is welcome into the fold as long as they hew to the message of malice and division spewing out of the right-wing propaganda machine. Anyone who has an opinion of their own, regardless of race, is labeled a RINO

      • Every time you post you let us know how ignorant you are.

        Hispanics used to vote overwhelmingly Republican. But over time they've seen that the left hand giveth, and the right hand taketh away. Mostly, taketh away your family and deport them, but also taketh away your social services if they get half a chance.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by taustin ( 171655 )

      They've always been in favor for government regulation, as long as they get to write it.

      Which is indistinguishable from the left.

    • Left and right are relative terms. So left of what? Right of what? The way these terms are used today seems meaningless, a lazy way to fling shit and say "I don't like X" without having to put forward a real argument. The politics of labels and identity. He's a lefty, she's a righty. Bah

  • by governments who will use it against other countries and some, unfortunately, against its own citizens.

  • The various "organizations" of randomly selected governments have no power to do anything.G6, G7, G8, G10, G12,
    I mean it goes beyond the G20 https://www.g20.org/en/about-g... [g20.org]

    So shut the fuck up you meaningless "group" of some small subset of countries, and like we care what the UN said yesterday we don't care what you say today, and software developers WILL develop AI (eventually, although not now) and it won't be with respect to your "rules" or whatever.

    So, go gently into that fuck-off night.

    • If there is potential for abuse, people will abuse it.

    • International agreements are a convenient way for national governments to force through measures outside the more public eye of normal politics and make it immune to attack from well behaved diplomatic politicians (doesn't work on populists).

      National governments have guns.

  • One for thee and one for me.

  • If AI is such a risk to the public, businesses, economies, national security, etc., & since AI systems are typically built on widely available information, particularly about people, wouldn't it make sense to ban & extremely limit the collection of our personal data so that it can't be used to train & use AI systems against our interests? I know Google, Facebook, et al. might not like it & they'd have to find another way to target advertising, but wouldn't that go a long way to making it mor
  • These rules are nice gestures, but in reality it's not gonna happen. Countries like the US and it's army/"intelligence" service won't adher to those rules anyway, and other countries won't either. They might enforce it on some companies just to make an example, but in reality it won't amount to anything. You can't do anything about dodgy companies or criminal organizations, hell I'll bet even companies like google will do anything they like in their 'secret' labs.
  • It's established practice for musicians to 'get inspiration' from other artists, which is how you end up with a genre in the first place. What's different now is that AI can trawl that data much more efficiently and spit out new songs in milliseconds. What is fair remuneration for the original artists though, who have done the groundwork and published the data that AI uses? What if AI takes the music of AC/DC and emulates the lyrics and sound and is essentially 90% AC/DC dna? Or creates new art that is esse
  • The big AI companies are pushing for these rules, not because they give a shit about ethics and safety, but because they want small companies which are coming up with highly competitive AI to not be able to afford the gauntlet of regulations.

    This level of reporting will no doubt be very expensive. But it will be a fixed cost that the majors can easily afford, but a startup won't. I suspect if your AI is somewhat innovative it will also run afoul of these regulations, and after being reported will generate

  • see, there isn’t a company damned, that can be executed. people kill people. companies are a fiction, live into perpetuity and people work for them. companies have single-minded purpose to make money, fiat - another paper fiction.

  • After multiple runs through translation software, I have distilled the code of conduct down to its bare essential: "Only say or do what we approve."

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