Sunak wants to 'take lead' in protecting against AI risks
Rishi Sunak says he wants to "take the lead" in protecting people against the risks posed by Artificial Intelligence. Speaking in Downing Street on the first day of a UK government summit on AI safety, the British prime minister said although jobs will change, AI will be ‘good for the economy and will create jobs over time’. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 already starting to play an impact in our lives, particularly in public services like
00:04 health and education.
00:05 Now, the reason we're hosting this summit is because AI technology is developing at
00:09 an incredible pace.
00:11 The people who are developing the technology themselves have raised some concerns about
00:15 what might happen, how it might be used by bad actors, and I want to take a lead in protecting
00:20 the British people.
00:21 That's why we've convened everyone to talk about these risks.
00:24 It's why we've created an AI safety institute here in the UK, doing more on this than anyone
00:28 else in the world.
00:29 It's very hard to predict how the labour market will change as a result of the new technology,
00:34 but history tells us that, you know, of course some jobs will change, but overall, as technology
00:38 makes things cheaper or makes us more productive, that's overall good for the economy and creates
00:43 jobs over time.
00:45 My job is to make sure that we help people to succeed whatever happens.
00:50 Earlier this year, we established something called the Defending Democracy Task Force.
00:55 It involves our security services as well, and that task force is charged with ensuring
01:01 the integrity of our democratic processes like elections.
01:05 And as I said, this is something that we've already been working on, and AI is one of
01:10 the things that AI does, is make those risks much greater, because things can happen on
01:16 a much greater scale far faster than they could have happened before.