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And while the Liberal government has lauded its AI regulation bill, some said the government was too slow to get it through Parliament, and the bill now looks likely to die on the order paper ahead of an anticipated spring election.<\/p>\n
Martin-Bariteau said heads of state could issue a joint statement at the summit, and that countries tend to follow up such statements at the national level.<\/p>\n
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He said the joint statement on AI safety issued at the first meeting in Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom was one of the successes of that 2023 summit, and most of the countries who signed on are now \u201cbuilding capacity at the national level.\u201d<\/p>\n
The countries represented at that meeting also asked Yoshua Bengio, one of the Canadian \u201cgodfathers\u201d of AI, to lead efforts to put together an international report on AI safety. The report, which incorporates input from 96 AI experts from around the world, was focused on general-purpose AI and was released in late January.<\/p>\n
It says some of AI\u2019s potential harms are well-known, including the use of technology for scams, non-consensual intimate images, child sexual abuse material, the risk of bias in system outputs and privacy violations.<\/p>\n
It says as general-purpose AI gains more capabilities, more risks are emerging, including \u201clarge-scale labour market impacts, AI-enabled hacking or biological attacks, and society losing control over general-purpose AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilkinson said Bengio\u2019s report is \u201ca timely, comprehensive reminder of the risks and capabilities of general-purpose AI systems and will likely be a conversation-starter over the summit.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the 2024 AI summit in Seoul, world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to advance research and testing of the technology. Canada announced the launch of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute in November.<\/p>\n
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Nicolas Papernot, co-director of the institute\u2019s research program, said its work will be grounded in Bengio\u2019s report as it pursues questions about bias, the robustness of AI systems and their predictions and the potential for privacy breaches.<\/p>\n
Papernot said the Canadian institute is \u201cin touch with a lot of these parallel institutes. The idea is essentially to have a shared agenda for research.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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