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Can the U.K. summit deliver on AI safety?

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4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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From the BBC World Service: Government representatives and tech leaders are meeting in the United Kingdom for the world’s first safety summit on artificial intelligence. What might come out of it? Plus, a drought is forcing a traffic reduction through the Panama Canal. And there’s another controversial host for the men’s soccer World Cup, as Saudi Arabia is set to hold the 2034 competition.

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0:00.0

Control, Alt and deliberate. Global leaders meet to discuss AI safety. Hello, and you're

0:07.0

listening to the Marketplace Morning Report live from the BBC World Service. I'm Leanna

0:11.4

Burn. Thanks very much for joining us. Global leaders and tech giants are gathering

0:15.7

in the UK to discuss the safety of artificial intelligence. Representatives from 27 governments,

0:21.4

including the US and China, are meeting with executives from Google, Metta, and Microsoft

0:26.3

to address AI's potential risks such as loss of human control and bioterrorism. The

0:31.9

boss of cyber security company, Dark Trace, Puppy Gustafson, will be there. She says AI is

0:37.6

currently in a data gathering phase, but how it's managed in future will be the key.

0:43.4

The next stage will be that technology using that information to make decisions and take

0:48.5

actions, and that is where that human sort of failsafe is a really important aspect

0:53.4

and how are you controlling it. The ultimate, how do you stop it and how do you interrupt

0:57.9

it? I asked the BBC's technology correspondent Mark Chislak, who's out the summer in

1:02.7

Bletchley Park, what we can expect from the gathering. There's been great play made

1:07.4

that this is the first AI safety summit, bringing together figures from governments around

1:13.6

the world, power players in the AI and big tech industry to explore some of the issues

1:20.3

and risks that AI presents. It seems like it has a lot of important groups. You've got

1:25.0

27 governments, including the US and China. You've also got big companies like Google,

1:29.1

Metta, Microsoft. They're all discussing this, but do we expect any regulatory outcomes

1:35.1

and any concrete outcomes? It's unlikely that there's going to be any great sweeping

1:41.4

regulatory moves made against AI at this particular event. The Prime Minister and the government

1:46.8

have said that the point of this is to move slowly and to explore the issues, gain an

1:53.1

understanding of what some of the risks could actually be before moving to create any kind

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