- South Korean Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communications Lee Jong-ho expressed the need for global cooperation to make AI development successful.
- Li said cooperation is essential and he hopes future summits will place more emphasis on cooperation on AI safety mechanisms.
- The Seoul summit, co-hosted with the UK, addressed concerns such as job security, copyright and inequality.
South Korea’s Minister of Science and Information Technology said on Wednesday at the conclusion of a global summit on rapidly evolving AI technology hosted by his country that the world must work together to ensure the successful development of AI.
The AI Summit, co-hosted by the UK in Seoul, will focus on issues such as job security, copyright and inequality on Wednesday, after 16 tech companies signed a voluntary agreement to develop AI safely the day before. Concerns were discussed.
On Wednesday, 14 companies, including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and six South Korean companies, announced that they are using watermarks and other methods to help identify AI-generated content, creating jobs and supporting vulnerable groups. signed another pledge to ensure that
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“Cooperation is not an option, but a necessity,” South Korean Science and ICT Minister Lee Jong-ho said in an interview with Reuters.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Deok-soo speaks at the opening ceremony of the AI Global Forum held in Seoul, South Korea on May 22, 2024. South Korea’s Minister of Science, Technology and Information Technology said on Wednesday that the world needs to work together to ensure safety. The successful development of AI comes as his country’s summit on rapidly evolving technologies comes to a close. (Reuters/Kim Soo Hyun)
“The Seoul Summit further shaped the discussion on AI safety, adding discussions on innovation and inclusiveness,” Lee said, adding that he hopes the next summit will see further discussions on agency cooperation on AI safety.
The first global AI summit will take place in the UK in November, with the next in-person gathering likely to take place in France in 2025.
Ministers and officials from multiple countries on Wednesday discussed cooperation between state-backed AI safety agencies to help regulate the technology.
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AI experts welcomed the steps taken so far to begin regulating the technology, but some noted the rules need to be enforced.
Francine Bennett, director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, which focuses on AI, said: “We need to move beyond voluntary…The people affected should set the rules through government.” Ta.
Max Tegmark, president of the Future of Life Institute, a group that speaks out about AI systems, said AI services should be proven to meet mandatory safety standards before being put on the market, so companies should equated safety with profit and said that public backlash due to unintended harm could be avoided. risk.
South Korea’s Science Minister Lee said the law tends to lag behind the speed of advances in technologies such as AI.
“However, flexible laws and regulations are needed to ensure safe public use.”
