Nations unite for AI safety ‘handbook’


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The most comprehensive scientific understanding of artificial intelligence systems and their risks was published overnight, offering a “global handbook” to policymakers at an AI inflection point.

The landmark document arrives ahead of a 30-nation AI safety summit in Paris next month with a message to decision makers that despite rapid changes “nothing about the future of general-purpose AI is inevitable”.

“The report calls out that both AI companies and governments face really strong competitive pressure, which may lead them to de-prioritise risk management,” UNSW Professor Bronwyn Fox, who represents Australia in the global AI safety push, said.

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