World Economic Council is developing global guidelines on AI spearheaded by panel of tech leaders

World leaders in technology are uniting to establish a common set of guidelines on the use of artificial intelligence and reel in the potential for misuse. The Global AI Council, which was created as part of a summit by the World Economic Forum in San Francisco, will focus not just on establishing standards for how AI should and shouldn't be applied across fields, but in making those standards mesh among world powers, particularly the U.S. and China. The goal of connecting disparate governments is arguably best exemplified through the council's leaders -- Microsoft President Brad Smith and Chinese AI expert Kai-Fu Lee. According to a statement from the World Economic Forum, specifically, the council hopes to establish channels of communication between partners of the council on best practices and case studies as well as addressing what it calls'governance gaps' -- presumably areas where regulation has yet to keep up with potentially harmful technology. As noted by MIT Technology Review, one particular area that will likely be a flashpoint for regulatory and ethical guidelines surrounding AI is surveillance.