Rishi Sunak talks ‘worldwide collaboration’ on AI with Google’s Sundar Pichai

Rishi Sunak held a non-public assembly with the boss of Google on Friday as a part of his ongoing discussions with tech leaders concerning the challenges posed by synthetic intelligence.

The prime minister met with Sundar Pichai, the chief government of Google’s dad or mum firm Alphabet, on the Darlington Economic Campus.

They mentioned the challenges posed by AI in addition to rising the UK’s tech trade and the federal government’s ambition to make Britain a science and technology superpower.

On synthetic intelligence, a Downing Street spokesperson mentioned: “They spoke about striking the right balance to ensure the right regulatory guardrails are in place, whilst driving forward innovation.

“They mentioned attainable alternatives for trade and worldwide collaboration on secure and accountable AI improvement and agreed to stay in contact on this concern.”

Mr Sunak has already held talks this week with tech bosses together with the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

The prime minister praised AI as “the defining technology of our time with the potential to positively transform humanity”.

But he additionally mentioned the necessity to regulate synthetic intelligence to mitigate dangers, starting from disinformation and nationwide safety to “existential threats”.

The explosive development of AI and its a number of purposes has seen a proliferation of fake AI-generated images, AI images mimicry and cloned music tracks.

Last week BT Group mentioned it will cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade amid plans to shift to AI and automatic providers.

There are rising issues that the know-how may have an effect on jobs and education, whereas some specialists have even warned highly effective AI programs “can’t be controlled”.

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Leaders in science and tech are pushing for better regulation so the advantages of AI might be utilised whereas mitigating the dangers.

Writing within the Financial Times this week, Mr Pichai known as AI “the most profound technology humanity is working on today”, citing medical advances and “its ability to help thousands of Ukrainian refugees… communicate in their new homes”.

He mentioned it AI is “too important not to regulate, and too important not to regulate well”.

It comes amid rising warnings from specialists within the discipline.

Former Government chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has warned that AI may have a comparable impact on jobs with the industrial revolution.

And earlier this month Geoffrey Hinton, the person broadly seen because the godfather of AI, warned some of the dangers of AI chatbots are “quite scary” as he stop his job at Google.

Despite issues surrounding AI, the know-how has made strides within the scientific and medical fields, together with a new test developed to probably assist medical doctors diagnose coronary heart assaults extra shortly and extra precisely.

This week it emerged a person paralysed in a biking accident 10 years in the past is now able to walk again because of a wireless digital link between his brain and spinal cord.

Scientists have additionally used AI to create a system to detect tsunamis and earthquakes.