Bletchley Park (United Kingdom), November 2 (EFE).- A new international panel, inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, in English), will monitor progress in artificial intelligence (AI ) to guarantee the security of this new technology, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced this Thursday.

At a press conference following the Global AI Security Summit in Bletchley Park (England), Sunak explained that “the entire international community agrees with this idea”, which has the support of UN Secretary General António Guterres, who was present at the meeting.

The 28 countries that participated in the summit, including the United States and China, as well as other European countries such as Germany, France and Spain, committed to “nominating experts” for this group, which will regularly publish a report on the state of development of artificial intelligence.

Canadian academic Yoshua Bengio, member of the UN Scientific Advisory Board and winner of the Turing Prize for his work on deep neural networks, will chair the work to prepare this annual document.

The head of the British government, host of the first global summit on AI, clarified that the “like-minded countries” which participated in the meeting and the technology companies also agreed to establish mechanisms to test future systems of artificial intelligence.

“Until now, the only people testing the safety of new AI models were the companies developing them. This must change,” said Sunak, who indicated that authorities will be able to assess the systems “before they are launched.” .

“This technology is developing at such a speed that governments must ensure they keep pace,” added the Prime Minister, who assured that despite the dangers linked to AI, it is a tool that “can help almost everyone. their work better and faster.

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Although the Bletchley Park summit did not attract world leaders like US President Joe Biden or the majority of European leaders, Sunak defended the success of the press call.

He noted in particular that rival powers Washington and Beijing aligned themselves in the joint statement issued on the first day of the meeting, in which participants warned of potentially “catastrophic” AI threats and opted for for coordination and an international response.

“It wasn’t an easy decision for me to invite China, and in fact, a lot of people criticized me for doing it. But I think it was the best decision in the long run, because all “Serious conversation about AI safety must involve leading nations in AI,” he said.

“I can’t predict the future, or exactly how this will all play out, but it would have been a mistake not to try,” he added.

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