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In an effort to rein in the rapid development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), lawmakers in the EU are urging for international collaboration and have called for world leaders to hold a summit that will identify methods of controlling AI advancement.
European Parliament, which is made up of 12 members, has expressed concerns at the rate at which advanced AI like ChatGPT is being developed and has requested that US President Joe Biden and president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen bring together nations worldwide for the summit.
EU Parliament is not alone in being concerned with the advancement of intelligent AI, after Tesla founder and Twitter chief executive Elon Musk, alongside 1,000 industry heads, called for the development of any AI more powerful than GPT4, OpenAI’s latest version of ChatGPT, be halted for six months.
Alongside the mass of security concerns that sophisticated generative AI has created, such as its potential use by hackers, the letter also warned of the risk it posed in terms of spreading misinformation and the potential it had to make human workers obsolete.
While some of the more extreme messages in the letter were not considered, the EU Parliament agreed with the “letter’s core message” and has called for “significant political action.
Keeping advanced AI and its developers has been a topic for discussion for international governments in the last few months, with the US government asking for public recommendations regarding the impact of AI on national security and other areas, as well as potential accountability measures.
New draft measures in China would require AI firms to submit security assessments before releasing systems to the public.
The EU proposed a draft for AI regulation almost two years ago. The act would classify AI tools based on risk, ranging from low to unacceptable. According to sources speaking to Reuters, a decision on the act will hopefully be reached by 26 April.
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