A committee from the House of Lords has written a report in which it urges lawmakers to focus on more pressing issues rather than the inflated worries that artificial intelligence poses a danger to human survival.
The British Parliament’s House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee has issued a warning about the dangers of artificial intelligence and how the country is losing sight of the opportunities presented by the technology because of its fixation on AI safety and potential dangers.
The committee said in a study that AI and LLMs, the building blocks of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, would bring about revolutionary advances on par with the internet’s birth.
The committee did caution the UK to reevaluate its strategy in light of the possibilities presented by AI. Unless this changes, the United Kingdom risks becoming strategically reliant on IT companies abroad for a technology that will be integral to future everyday life but will also cause it to lose its international influence.
The United Kingdom held the first AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in November 2023. Among the long-term dangers discussed during the meeting were AI’s possible involvement in sophisticated cyberattacks, its vulnerability to abuse in the creation of biological or chemical weapons, and its existence as a threat.
A more robust computer infrastructure, more efforts to enhance digital skills, increased funding for artificial intelligence businesses, and further investigation into the possibility of a sovereign “in-house” U.K. LLM were all urged in the committee’s report.
The committee noted that there is a lot of rivalry among AI developers over who gets to control the industry’s regulations, and they all want their own way. To counteract this, they said that the government should make market competition a top priority in AI policy.
Even if it requires new legislation, the committee paper nonetheless suggests protecting copyright. To promote the use of licensed material by digital enterprises, the government should enable content owners to ensure their data is being used correctly and provide large, high-quality training data sets.
The paper emphasized that the government of the United Kingdom must support strong regulatory supervision. According to it, developing recognized standards and common auditing procedures should be done quickly enough to guarantee responsible innovation, encourage corporate adoption, and allow for effective regulatory monitoring.
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