UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety

The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together on testing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and develop "robust" safety methods for AI tools and their underlying systems. "It is the first bilateral agreement of its kind," reports the BBC. From the report: UK tech minister Michelle Donelan said it is "the defining technology challenge of our generation." "We have always been clear that ensuring the safe development of AI is a shared global issue," she said. "Only by working together can we address the technology's risks head on and harness its enormous potential to help us all live easier and healthier lives."

The secretary of state for science, innovation and technology added that the agreement builds upon commitments made at the AI Safety Summit held in Bletchley Park in November 2023. The event, attended by AI bosses including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and tech billionaire Elon Musk, saw both the UK and US create AI Safety Institutes which aim to evaluate open and closed-source AI systems. [...]

Gina Raimondo, the US commerce secretary, said the agreement will give the governments a better understanding of AI systems, which will allow them to give better guidance. "It will accelerate both of our Institutes' work across the full spectrum of risks, whether to our national security or to our broader society," she said. "Our partnership makes clear that we aren't running away from these concerns - we're running at them."

so that will be no safe guards whatsover

[Growlley]

that get in the way of making a $

Lock out the competition

[bradley13]

Big tech company lobbiest convince clueless politicians: lock out competition by erecting hurdles only big companies can afford to deal with.

Purely coincidentally, the bank accounts of said politicians are suddenly much fuller, or will be soon. Not bribery, of course. Maybe an overpaid speaking engagement or consulting contract.

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[zlives]

i don't care, as long as they actually deal with the hurdles. MS is pushing copilot in everything and i am sure the janitor is in charge of the security and compliance bit.

Unreasonable Anger

[nightflameauto]

UK tech minister Michelle Donelan said it is "the defining technology challenge of our generation." "We have always been clear that ensuring the safe development of AI is a shared global issue," she said. "Only by working together can we address the technology's risks head on and harness its enormous potential to help us all live easier and healthier lives."

Maybe it hasn't set in for folks in the UK, but when we normal citizens here in the United States hear one of the oligarch's mouthpieces talking about making all our lives easier and healthier, it instantly registers as a nearly overwhelming, if on the surface unreasonable anger. Because we know, without any doubt at all, that all the "easier" and "healthier" parts are going to be reserved for the oligarchs and their mouthpieces and henchmen in the government. While the costs, risks, and damage will be heap

AI is an information nuke

[OrangeTide]

Just like nuclear fission is useful both as an energy source and a weapon, AI systems has a similar destructive potential. In our lifetime we will see AI driven propaganda campaigns force regime change or even topple a few governments.
While we could always do the propaganda and psychological warfare by hand, a tireless machine can do it as a capacity that is like comparing the flow rate of garden hose to that of Niagara falls.

Uzbekistan and Suriname announce world peace

[sinkskinkshrieks]

That's about how enforceable and meaningful this pointless distraction is. This is pure PR and politics, nothing more.