Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governments can keep up with.
However, whilst the capabilities of artificial intelligence are advancing rapidly, experts point out that regulations designed to ensure its safe use are struggling to keep pace.
That is the conclusion of the preliminary report by the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence
The report warns that the opportunity to establish effective global governance remains open, but may not remain so for long.
Why does it matter?
Artificial intelligence could become one of the most transformative technologies for humanity.
Used responsibly, it could accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by improving healthcare, education, scientific research, agriculture and accessibility for people with disabilities.
However, without safeguards, the same technology could exacerbate inequalities, spread disinformation, threaten human rights, disrupt labour markets and place powerful AI systems in the hands of a very small number of governments and companies.
The challenge, according to the report, is to find a way to harness the enormous benefits of artificial intelligence whilst, at the same time, mitigating its growing risks.
An extraordinary pace of development
The capabilities of artificial intelligence have advanced at an extraordinary pace in recent years.
New and powerful computer networks, vast amounts of training data and improved artificial intelligence techniques have produced systems capable of holding fluid conversations, reasoning about complex scientific issues, developing computer programmes and creating highly realistic images, audio and videos.
Rather than merely responding to instructions, artificial intelligence ‘agents’ are increasingly able to plan tasks, use digital tools, write programmes and complete complex assignments with little or no human supervision.
According to the report, researchers state that the complexity of the tasks these systems can complete has doubled every few months.
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