At the Artificial Intelligence Action summit in Paris, a key talking point has been the development and how to fund and prepare.
There have also been discussions about moving forward, building larger data centers and providing enough energy for them.
Among several side bar events was China’s AI Development and Safety gathering.
Iolo ap Dafydd reports from Paris.
There have also been discussions about moving forward, building larger data centers and providing enough energy for them.
Among several side bar events was China’s AI Development and Safety gathering.
Iolo ap Dafydd reports from Paris.
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00:00Paris has been full of tech company executives and world leaders grappling with how artificial
00:07intelligence should develop.
00:09Over the past few days, all kinds of ideas and initiatives have been discussed.
00:14Professor Song Yi has returned to Paris to discuss the rapid development on AI by some
00:19tech corporations.
00:21Many of the AI companies now, they choose not to talk about AI ethics and safety, but
00:27I think this is completely wrong.
00:30Actually the relationship between AI development and safety is not that they drag each other,
00:36they will have negative influence to each other, no.
00:39Actually you can build AI which is very powerful from the development point of view, but still
00:45you keep it really safe.
00:47So this is scientifically solid.
00:50The Paris Summit's declaration seemed to antagonize both the US government with references to
00:55diversity, gender and disinformation, as well as the UK government, by ignoring the
01:00scientific and political consensus around risks from smarter-than-human AI systems that
01:06was agreed at Bletchley Park in late 2023.
01:10One argument is to allow companies to innovate.
01:14Now today we're in the absurd situation where there are more safety standards on a San Francisco-based
01:18company that wants to sell sandwiches than the ones that sell superintelligence.
01:24It's completely nuts.
01:25As soon as you have the safety standards there, companies will innovate to meet them and give
01:30us powerful AI that's actually safe tools that work for us, rather than completely useless
01:37superintelligent things that just make us obsolete and take over.
01:42As important as the main summit were a myriad of other events organized throughout central
01:47Paris, debates about AI, after speeches, in private meetings and panel discussions
01:54on the innovation and how to develop it safely for the benefit of everybody.
01:59At this panel, organized by China's AI Safety and Development Association, many experts
02:05seem to agree there should be international cooperation on artificial intelligence and
02:11transparency too.
02:13The solution is in our hands.
02:15We can decide which direction we want to go, how far can we go, and how quickly should
02:20we go.
02:21So I think that's where we feel that AI governance, particularly at the global level, is critical.
02:29President Macron, in his address at the end of the first day of the summit, injected some
02:33humor into the French government's intention to invest US$112 billion in new data centers
02:40and power for AI technology in France.
02:43I have a good friend in the other part of the ocean saying, drill, baby, drill.
02:49Here, there is no need to drill.
02:52It's just plug, baby, plug.
02:55Electricity is available.
02:57You can plug it.
02:59It's ready.
03:00The balance and the challenges of how to regulate and by how much, while allowing tech companies
03:06to innovate, will continue long after this AI Action Summit.
03:11Yolanda David, CGTN, Paris.