It’s encouraging to already see some benefits of the Bletchley Summit, even before it’s happened. In Rishi Sunak’s speech on AI, he spoke of how the UK was prepared to lead the way on AI safety, including by being a trusted overseer and partner to tech firms. To that end it’s encouraging to see six […]
In the past, a public intervention by a former UK Prime Minister might be considered big news, but these days it seems to happen most months. This time it was the turn of Liz Truss on the topic of AI. Truss has largely been ridiculed by the UK media; the shortest serving PM, accused of […]
Next week the UK will host an AI Safety Summit in Bletchley. In preparation Rishi Sunak delivered a speech this week to set the scene. Here are some highlights: The main appeal of the speech is one of honesty – being upfront about the risks, but also hopeful of the opportunities.
On the recommendation of Elon Musk no less, I picked up a copy of Life 3.0, by Max Tegmark, first published in 2017. Tegmark is Professor at MIT and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute. Whilst this book is primarily about AI, Tegmark is a cosmologist by trade, an interest which is apparent throughout […]
There were some rather large protests taking place in London in recent weeks highlighting the current conflict in Gaza. So you could be forgiven for missing the rather smaller “Pause AI” protest. What are they protesting about? They are highlighting the present and future risks of AI; fake media, bias, economic instability, weapons, hacking and […]
This week was the start of the UK Labour Party conference 2023. To coincide a deepfake audio recording of Labour leader Keir Starmer was released with the purpose of discrediting and embarrasing. Last year, deepfake videos of Zelensky and Putin were released claiming to carry political messages. There have also been recent online scams involving […]
Here’s a wide ranging interview with philosopher Daniel C Dennett. In discussing his memoir, the interview takes a detour to talk AI. Dennett freely admits he is an alarmist, but worries there are plenty of causes for alarm: The most pressing problem is not that they’re going to take our jobs, not that they’re going […]
Marks and Clerk, the intellectual property specialists have just released their 2023 AI Report. It contains some fascinating stats around patent filing for AI projects around the world: But alongside the stats they begin to wrestle with some deeper questions: The ethics around generative AI, particularly in the creation of music and images is likely […]
Brian J. A. Boyd writing in The New Atlantic asks some thoughtful questions about the effect of AI on society and especially the work place: “B.S. Jobs and the Coming Crisis of Meaning” He writes around the area of Autonomous AI – the kind of systems that take the human operator / decision maker out […]
In their ‘AI Pause‘ discussion, Tegmark, Russell and Dempsey are all clear on the need for red lines in AI. It might sound prudish, but perhaps one of the first red lines should be the creation of nudity images. I dare say you might think differently on this topic if you were the parent of […]