Do we need an AI UN?
Cognitive scientist and AI expert Gary Marcus advocates for an international body to govern emerging AI technologies.
The world needs a United Nations-like body to regulate rapidly advancing AI technologies, especially after governments start passing laws that impose different requirements on AI companies.
“Currently, we have 37 countries that have passed laws on AI in the last year, and each country is doing its own thing,” said Gary Marcus, who hosts the AI-themed podcast “Humans and Machines with Gary Marcus.” Kuss said. “But there is no coordination between what all these countries are doing.”
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Without a common regulator, AI companies may be forced to modify their software and offer different versions in different countries, or even different countries, to comply with each unique law, Marcus said.
“If it’s a mess, it’s not good for the world,” he told Fox News. “This pair [AI] Companies if they have to train a different version of the model for each jurisdiction, maybe even California different than Tennessee and so on. “
“We need some consistency here,” said Marcus, who led the Uber’s artificial intelligence lab From 2016 to 2017, he co-authored the book “Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust”.
He suggested the creation of an international AI regulator that would include government officials and leading scientists from around the world. Marcus did not say who should lead the effort, but emphasized the importance of including scientific expertise.
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He told Fox News that most governments “don’t know much about AI.”
Marcus said he hopes an international body can help curb misinformation generated by AI. Bad actors can use platforms like ChatGPT to “write billions of misinformation in a single day,” he said.
“I don’t think we really have any national laws dealing with this,” he said.
Marcus recently told Fox News that AI-generated content has become realistic enough to deceive the public on a massive scale.
“An international AI body could start getting countries to work together and try to figure out common penalties,” Marcus said. “There’s a lot of issues across international lines and so on.”
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Rapidly advancing AI technology could open a Pandora’s box for the entire planet, according to AI authors.
“Cybercrime is a risk, machines can trick people into committing cybercrime, and bad actors can cause 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 one country, especially a small country, to be able to deal with all these threats alone,” he told Fox News.
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