UK, US sign landmark AI security deal

The UK and US have reached a first-of-its-kind agreement on artificial intelligence safety, focusing on safety assessments.

The two countries will jointly develop “robust” methods and their constituent models for assessing the safety of artificial intelligence (AI). The collaboration between the UK and the US is the first of its kind and marks an important development in the development of artificial intelligence.

UK Technology Minister Michelle Donelan described the agreement as “the defining technology challenge of our generation”.

“We have always been clear that ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence is a common global issue,” she continued. “Only by working together can we address the risks of this technology head-on and harness its enormous potential to help us all live easier, healthier lives.”

Specifically, the agreement builds on earlier commitments made at last November’s AI Security Summit at Bletchley Park. Leaders in artificial intelligence attended the event, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and tech billionaire Elon Musk. The UK and US have also created dedicated AI Security Institutes to assess the security of open and closed source AI systems.

What are some of the concerns about AI safety?

Most of the AI ​​tools in use today are so-called “narrow AI”, which are tools that can perform simple tasks that humans can also perform. The real safety concerns, however, center on advances in artificial intelligence that can scale to take on more complex tasks than just data analysis or providing learned responses to prompts.

The goal of the agreement between the UK and the US is not to slow down the progress of AI, but to ensure that AI safety principles are integrated into AI as it develops. In particular, it’s important for AI companies to recognize that as they learn from us, human biases have the potential to be embedded in language models.

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