A “breakthrough” in AI safety guidelines
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Many of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to non-binding safety standards for artificial intelligence. While the joint guidelines address cybersecurity, they don’t extend to key issues like economic disruptions or potential threats to humanity. We dig into what this means as governments struggle to keep up with the pace of AI development. Plus, nothing like a U.N. climate summit for pitching expanded oil and gas deals.
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| 0:24.0 | Nothing like a UN Climate Summit for pitching expanded oil and gas deals. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm David Brancaccio. |
| 0:32.2 | First, many of the world's biggest economies have agreed to safety standards for artificial intelligence. |
| 0:38.0 | The deal is non-binding and I don't see China's name here, but. officials say it's a breakthrough designed to push companies |
| 0:44.5 | to put safety first. |
| 0:46.2 | Marketplace's Nova Safo is here. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, a breakthrough, David, because it is the first time officials say multiple countries |
| 0:52.3 | around the globe are putting out |
| 0:55.0 | joint safety guidelines for artificial intelligence systems. Now these guidelines |
| 0:58.7 | address a subset of the concerns raised by AI. They're specifically about designing |
| 1:03.6 | cybersecurity defenses into these systems from the beginning to keep them |
| 1:07.9 | from getting hacked. What the guidelines don't address are some of the |
| 1:11.4 | even bigger questions around AI having to do with major |
| 1:14.2 | economic disruptions and potential threats to humanity. |
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