AI security summits could help shape UK legislation, says Technology Secretary

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Increased international cooperation on AI security sparked by the UK AI Security Summits will facilitate the development of legislation technology secretary Michelle Donelan said. The UK is currently co-hosting the Seoul AI Summit with South Korea, where more than a dozen technology companies IA agreed to create new security standards, while 10 countries and the EU agreed to form an international network of state-backed security institutes. to advance AI security research and testing globally.

The summit comes six months after the UK hosted the first AI Security Summit AI at Bletchley Park, where world leaders and AI companies agreed to focus on the safe and responsible development of AI, and conduct further research into the potential risks associated with this technology.

Ms Donelan said these regular meetings and discussions were helping to put AI security “at the top” of national agendas around the world, as many countries consider how best to legislate on the subject of emerging technologies.

I think what we have done in the UK in setting up this process of summits at long term... it's creating a long-term process to bring the world together on the very theme of AI safety, innovation and inclusiveness

Michelle Donelan

< p>“What we've been saying is that legislation has to be passed at the right time, but legislation can't be out of date by the time you actually release it, and we have to know exactly what "What's in this legislation – we need to get the risks under control – and that's another thing that this summit process helps us achieve," she told the PA news agency.

“I think what we've done in the UK in setting up this long-term system - The long-term process of summits - starting in Bletchley and now here in Seoul, then there will be the one in France - is to create a long-term process to bring the world together on the very topic of AI safety, innovation and inclusiveness, which are all intertwined, so that we can really focus on this subject and keep it at the top of the agendas of other countries and nations. »

The technology secretary added that “AI does not respect geographic boundaries” and it “is not enough” to only work on AI security at the national level, with “ interoperability” of the new network of international security institutes and the resulting knowledge sharing helping governments to be “much more strategic” in risk management...