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Things to know about an AI safety summit in Seoul
Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. South Korea is set to host a mini-summit this week on risks and regulation of artificial intelligence, following up on an inaugural AI safety meeting in Britain last year that drew a diverse crowd of tech luminaries, researchers and officials. The gathering in Seoul aims to build on work started at the U.K. meeting on reining in threats posed by cutting edge artificial intelligence systems. Here is what you need to know about the AI Seoul Summit and AI safety issues.
Taiwan's Digital Minister Has an Ambitious Plan to Align Tech With Democracy
Audrey Tang, Taiwan's 43-year-old minister of digital affairs, has a powerful effect on people. At a panel discussion at Northeastern University in Boston, 20-year-old student Diane Grant is visibly moved, describing Tang's talk as the best she's been to in her undergraduate career. Later that day, a German tourist recognizes Tang leaving the Boston Museum of Science and requests a photo, saying she's "starstruck." At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a trio of world-leading economists bashfully ask Tang to don a baseball cap emblazoned with the name of their research center and pose for a group photo. Political scientist and former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen, confesses to Tang that, although others often tell her that she is a source of inspiration to them, she rarely feels inspired by others.
G7 digital ministers agree to pursue responsible AI as ChatGPT booms
The ministers also agreed to further promote smooth and trustworthy cross-border data flows -- one of Japan's key goals for the two-day G7 tech meeting -- as more countries look to tighten regulations on the flow of data. How to apply rules to the use of generative AI tools is becoming a pressing issue for governments around the world in the wake of the public debut of OpenAI's ChatGPT last November. Since then, the chatbot app has demonstrated its high capacity to handle a variety of tasks, including finding and summarizing information, drafting documents and checking programing code. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.
MWC 2021: Spain looking to become leader in AI, says digital minister
Spain is "lagging behind" when it comes to the general population's digital skills, especially women, the country's Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence told Euronews Next. Speaking on Tuesday at the Mobile World Congress 2021 in Barcelona, Carme Artigas said the Spanish government was tackling the country's skills shortage head on. "Women are still underrepresented in the population that has technological abilities," the minister said. "The jobs of the future will require not only basic skills, but also specialised skills, advanced skills". Artigas said digitisation was also lacking for small and medium-sized businesses but that Spain is "absolutely focused" on transforming its economic model, something she said, "needs to be tackled urgently".
How to involve the public in the development of artificial intelligence
This year algorithms discovered a planet, taught themselves to play chess and wrote a pretty bizarre Harry Potter novel. But they also allowed fake news to influence the US election and enabled advanced mass surveillance in China. Artificial intelligence (AI), not the type that will see super intelligent robots destroy humanity, but the type that might deny you a credit card or develop a scarily accurate picture of your life, is already starting to shape how we live. This will only continue as governments start to invest huge sums in the field. Where are the voices of ordinary people in the conversation about how AI should develop?