Do we need a UN for AI?
Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence expert Gary Marcus advocates for the formation of an international body to govern emerging artificial intelligence technologies.
The world needs a United Nations-like agency to regulate rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technology, especially as governments begin to pass laws that place varying demands on AI companies.
“Right now we have 37 countries that passed artificial intelligence laws last year, each doing their own thing,” said Gary Marcus, who hosts the AI-themed podcast, “Humans vs. Machines with Gary Marcus”. “But there is no coordination between what all these countries are doing.”
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Without a common regulator, AI companies could be forced to modify their software and offer different versions from country to country – or even state to state – to comply with each single law, according to Marcus.
“It’s not good for the world if everything is a mess,” he told Fox News. “It’s not good for the [AI] companies if they have to train different versions of their models for each jurisdiction, maybe even California differently than Tennessee and so on.”
“We need some consistency here,” said Marcus, who led Uber’s AI labs from 2016 to 2017 and co-author of the book “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust.”
He suggested an international AI regulatory agency that includes government officials and leading scientists from around the world. Marcus didn’t say who should lead the effort, but stressed the importance of including scientific expertise.
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An endoscopic neurosurgery robot – created by the Hong Kong Institute of Science and Innovation, the AI and Robotics Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences – is seen at an exhibition. (Li Zhihua/China News Service via Getty Images)
Most governments “don’t know much about AI,” he told Fox News.
Marcus said he hopes an international agency will help limit the misinformation generated by AI. He said bad actors could use platforms like ChatGPT to “write billions of fake stories in a single day”.
“I think we don’t really have any laws in any country to deal with that,” he said.
Marcus recently told Fox News that AI-generated content has already become realistic enough to fool audiences on a massive scale.
“An international AI agency could start getting countries to work together to try to find common sanctions,” Marcus said. “There are a lot of problems crossing international lines and so on.”
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Marcus says AI chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, could theoretically “write billions of fake bits of information in a single day.” (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
According to the author of AI, rapidly advancing artificial intelligence technologies threaten to open a pandora’s box of risk for the entire planet.
“There are risks around … cybercrime, the possibility of machines tricking people into committing cybercrimes, the possibility that bad actors can lead to conflict by manipulating markets,” he told Fox. News.
The global scope of these risks underscores the need for international coordination, Marcus said.
“I don’t think it’s realistic to expect any country, especially not a small one, to be able to deal with all these threats on its own,” he told AFP. FoxNews.
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