The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how
There is disagreement over what is to be policed, how and by whom
THE venue will be picturesque: a 19th-century pile north of London that during World War II was home to Alan Turing, his code-breaking crew and the first programmable digital computer. The attendees will be an elite bunch of 100 world leaders and tech executives. And the question they will strive to answer is epochal: how to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) neither becomes a tool of unchecked malfeasance nor turns against humanity.
The AI Safety Summit, which the British government is hosting on Nov 1 and 2 at Bletchley Park, appears destined for the history books. And it may indeed one day be seen as the first time global power brokers sat down to discuss seriously what to do about a technology that may change the world.
As one of the organisers of the summit observed, in contrast with other big policy debates, such as climate change, “there is a lot of political will to do something, but it is not clear what”.
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