Humanity could lose control of AI, UK PM warns, as Britain seeks leading role in the tech
Summary
Britains Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday warned of the risks of artificial intelligence, ahead of a summit in which the U.K. hopes to take a global role in shaping how safety around the technology is designed. Sunak said in a speech that AI "will bring a transformation as far reaching as the industrial revolution, the coming of electricity, or the birth of the internet" — while adding that there are risks attached to that proposition. The prime minister said that AI could make it easier to build chemical or biological weapons and that criminals could exploit the technology. This definition includes some of the large language models that underpin applications such as OpenAIs ChatGPT and Googles Bard chatbot. Meanwhile, China has been introducing a slew of regulations around AI over the past year and a half, as Beijing looks to keep a close watch on the development of the technology.