While China does not have an official AI Safety Institute, there are several government-linked Chinese groups doing analogous work.
Learn more in an article from IAPS' Oliver Guest and external researcher Karson Elmgren.
New article with Karson Elmgren out today!
With the first meeting of the International Network of AI Safety Institutes starting today, where's China's AISI?
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Global leaders agree to launch first international network of AI Safety Institutes to boost cooperation of AI
Nations commit to work together to launch international network to accelerate the advancement of the science of AI safety.
Professor of Political Science / McGregor-Girand Professor of Social Ethics of Science and Technology / Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI
Fast and furious week of AI governance news.
- US AI Safety Institute announces inaugural meeting of an international network of AI safety institutes.
- UK AISI announces a conference on frontier AI safety to follow the US meeting
- UN High Level Advisory Body releases its final report on Governing AI For Humanity
Seoul AI Summit 2024, held from May 21-22, successfully brought together 20 nations and the European Union to discuss not only AI model safety but also to support innovation and inclusivity. Science and Technology Ministers from South Korea and the UK, who co-hosted the event, highlighted that this summit marked the beginning of 'Phase Two' of the AI discussions initiated last year in the UK. Key outcomes of the summit included:
➡ Publication of the independent interim International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI.
➡ Nations to work together on thresholds for severe AI risks, including in building biological and chemical weapons.
➡ Nations cementing their commitment to collaborate on AI safety testing and evaluation guidelines.
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Over the last year, AI safety has occupied the minds of AI experts from all sectors worldwide.
Last week, our Director, Jerry Sheehan, participated in the pivotal 3rd International Dialogue on AI Safety (IDAIS), a significant event organised by the Safe AI Forum and Berggruen Institute.
Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, members of our OECD.AI Network of Experts, were present alongside other top experts in the field. Participants reached a consensus and issued a statement calling on governments and other actors to recognise AI safety as a global public good, distinct from broader geostrategic competition.
Some of the key proposals in the statement include:
💡 Create an international body to coordinate national AI safety authorities, audit regulations and ensure minimal preparedness measures, and eventually set AI safety standards.
💡Developers should show they do not cross red lines, preserve privacy, and conduct pre-deployment testing and monitoring, including in high-risk cases that may cross those lines.
💡Verify safety claims and ensure global collaboration and trust, privacy protection, potentially through third-party governance and peer reviews to ensure global trust and reinforce international collaboration
Read more about the event and statement on the IDAIS website
👉 https://idais.ai/Ulrik Vestergaard KnudsenAudrey PlonkKarine PersetLuis ArandaJamie BerryhillLucia RussoNoah OderJohn Leo Tarver ⒿⓁⓉRashad AbelsonAngélina GentazValéria SilvaBénédicte RispalNikolas S.Sarah Bérubé#trustworthyai#aisafety#aipolicy#security
As the #Biden administration prepares to host the International Network of AI Safety Institutes (IN AISI), Stephanie Haven writes that preserving #US membership and leadership in the international network will require deft navigation of President-elect #Trump’s AI policy priorities.
Over the last year, AI safety has occupied the minds of AI experts from all sectors worldwide.
Last week, our Director, Jerry Sheehan, participated in the pivotal 3rd International Dialogue on AI Safety (IDAIS), a significant event organised by the Safe AI Forum and Berggruen Institute.
Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, members of our OECD.AI Network of Experts, were present alongside other top experts in the field. Participants reached a consensus and issued a statement calling on governments and other actors to recognise AI safety as a global public good, distinct from broader geostrategic competition.
Some of the key proposals in the statement include:
💡 Create an international body to coordinate national AI safety authorities, audit regulations and ensure minimal preparedness measures, and eventually set AI safety standards.
💡Developers should show they do not cross red lines, preserve privacy, and conduct pre-deployment testing and monitoring, including in high-risk cases that may cross those lines.
💡Verify safety claims and ensure global collaboration and trust, privacy protection, potentially through third-party governance and peer reviews to ensure global trust and reinforce international collaboration
Read more about the event and statement on the IDAIS website
👉 https://idais.ai/Ulrik Vestergaard KnudsenAudrey PlonkKarine PersetLuis ArandaJamie BerryhillLucia RussoNoah OderJohn Leo Tarver ⒿⓁⓉRashad AbelsonAngélina GentazValéria SilvaBénédicte RispalNikolas S.Sarah Bérubé#trustworthyai#aisafety#aipolicy#security
"Additionally, for models exceeding early-warning thresholds, states could require that independent experts approve a developer’s safety case prior to further training or deployment. Moreover, states can help institute ethical norms for AI engineering, for example by stipulating that engineers have an individual duty to protect the public interest similar to those held by medical or legal professionals. "
Instuting ethical norms, registration, and duties for engineers to make technology good for society speaks directly to the messaging from BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in the UK. A very important point.
Over the last year, AI safety has occupied the minds of AI experts from all sectors worldwide.
Last week, our Director, Jerry Sheehan, participated in the pivotal 3rd International Dialogue on AI Safety (IDAIS), a significant event organised by the Safe AI Forum and Berggruen Institute.
Yoshua Bengio and Stuart Russell, members of our OECD.AI Network of Experts, were present alongside other top experts in the field. Participants reached a consensus and issued a statement calling on governments and other actors to recognise AI safety as a global public good, distinct from broader geostrategic competition.
Some of the key proposals in the statement include:
💡 Create an international body to coordinate national AI safety authorities, audit regulations and ensure minimal preparedness measures, and eventually set AI safety standards.
💡Developers should show they do not cross red lines, preserve privacy, and conduct pre-deployment testing and monitoring, including in high-risk cases that may cross those lines.
💡Verify safety claims and ensure global collaboration and trust, privacy protection, potentially through third-party governance and peer reviews to ensure global trust and reinforce international collaboration
Read more about the event and statement on the IDAIS website
👉 https://idais.ai/Ulrik Vestergaard KnudsenAudrey PlonkKarine PersetLuis ArandaJamie BerryhillLucia RussoNoah OderJohn Leo Tarver ⒿⓁⓉRashad AbelsonAngélina GentazValéria SilvaBénédicte RispalNikolas S.Sarah Bérubé#trustworthyai#aisafety#aipolicy#security
Join us at #APrIGF on 23 August at 11:30 AM IST (2:00 PM TWT) where we will discuss the need for contextualising fairness in AI with Isabel Hou (Secretary General, Taiwan AI Academy Foundation), Jason Grant Allen (Director, Centre for AI and Data Governance, Singapore Management University) and Nidhi Singh (Project Manager, Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi). The session will explore how the concept of fairness differs across regions, with a focus on India, Taiwan and Singapore. We will also discuss the challenges of applying universal fairness metrics to diverse socio-cultural contexts.
Join online here: https://bit.ly/3X1wigO
Read more about our session here: https://lnkd.in/gU4MvTKB#AIFairness#AIEthics#AIGovernance
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We are talking about international governance of AI again today, a field that is just growing and growing as governments across the globe grapple with the seemingly intractable idea of regulating something they don’t understand. Helping them understand that is Markus Anderljung, Director of Policy and Research at the Centre for the Governance of AI in the UK. He aims to produce rigorous recommendations for governments and AI companies, researching frontier AI regulation, responsible cutting-edge development, national security implications of AI, and compute governance. He is an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a member of the OECD AI Policy Observatory’s Expert Group on AI Futures. He was previously seconded to the UK Cabinet Office as a Senior Policy Specialist.
I know “governance” sounds really dry and a million miles away from the drama of existential threats, and jobs going away, and loss of privacy on a global scale; but governance is exactly the mechanism by which we can hope to do something about all of those things. Whenever you say, or you hear someone say, “Someone ought to do something about that,” governance is what answers that call.
In the conclusion, we talk about verification processes, ingenious schemes to verify hardware platforms, the frontier AI safety commitments, and who should set safety standards for the industry.
All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines.
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