Aiming to ensure utmost safety in the realm of artificial intelligence, India, along with 27 other like-minded countries including the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and China, has agreed to work towards a framework that will minimise the risks that come with the rapidly evolving technology. All the 28 nations yesterday signed the Bletchley Declaration on the first day of the AI Safety Summit hosted by the UK government.
A part of the official declaration read, "We affirm that, whilst safety must be considered across the AI lifecycle, actors developing frontier AI capabilities, in particular those AI systems which are unusually powerful and potentially harmful, have a particularly strong responsibility for ensuring the safety of these AI systems, including through systems for safety testing, through evaluations, and by other appropriate measures," read a part of the declaration.
Technology minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar represented India at the AI Safety Summit 2023.
The AI Safety Summit 2023 is being seen as the maiden Western effort to ensure safe development of AI. This development came following tech executives' and lawmakers' multiple alarms over the rapid development of the technology which poses an existential threat to the world if not regulated.
The concerns have sparked a race among nations to come up with plans to regulate AI.
UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, welcomed the declaration, calling it “quite incredible”. Ahead of his appearance at the summit, on Thursday (Nov 2), Sunak also said that nothing will be more “transformative” to future generations than technological advances like AI.
According to British digital minister Michelle Donelan,"For the first time, we now have countries agreeing that we need to look not just independently but collectively at the risk around frontier AI.”
