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UK and Republic of Korea Collaborate on AI Summit

TL;DR

  • UK and Korea host the AI Seoul Summit focusing on safety, inclusion, and innovation.
  • Bletchley Park agreements advance at Seoul, with global AI safety norms on the agenda.
  • UK’s Manchester Prize aims £1m yearly for AI solutions to climate and energy issues.

Governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea are arranging to host the AI Seoul Miracle later on May 21st and 22nd. This event will aim at reaching that high level of presence as what last year’s AI Safety Summit, in the Bletchley Park of the UK accomplished. The talks will cover safe AI, the promotion of the diversity of benefits from AI, and reaching AI breakthrough boundaries.

Advancing AI safety and inclusion

The AI Seoul Summit to be held on a virtual platform in the morning of GMT at 8.00 and co-chaired by the UK PM Rishi Sunak and the President of the Republic of Korea Yoon Suk Yeol is kicking now. On this occasion, an agency will report on a given safety topic and share innovative measures of top-description companies. The next day it will be followed by a Digital Ministers Summit which will be organized by Zoom however Michelle Donelan is the UK’s Technology Secretary jointly hosted by Korea’s Lee Jong-Ho Ministry of Science and ICT.

While we continue to discuss the future of the world, we also target AI technology issues of accessibility and equality domestically and globally. Both parties are equally using the conference for AI Technology development under the latter’s progression and its issues are being addressed. The day we enter the world of even more sophisticated AI models is the timing for this summit. The emphasis here is on summarizing the importance of global norms-setting and governance to harness such innovations in a way that would promote humanity universally.

Enhancing global cooperation

The summit intends to promote regional coordination on AI security among world actors, the UK government proclaiming this as its foremost objective as expressed by Michelle Donelan, UK’s Science, Innovation, and Technology Secretary. She focused on the fact that the Bletchley Park Summit was a historical event and had faith in the worldwide activism that guided responsible AI genesis. Minister Lee Jong-Ho also covered the summit’s criticality, which acknowledges the fast-developing AI technology and international coordination that would enable the maximization of the benefits while controlling the risks.

This addition to the Seoul Summit is undoubtedly a critical milestone in the development of a comprehensive international AI safety report. This report coordinated by the 2018 A.M. Turing Prize winner Yoshua Bengio gathers, for the first time, the cross-Alliance foundations for AI safety, expands the panel of researchers operating in this field, and integrates researchers from the UK, the Republic of Korea, and the rest of the AI-advanced nations.

Strengthening AI through global collaboration and innovation

The forum will not only be focused on policy-making issues but it will dig into why AI is significant in solutions for aspects such as climate crises and buying energy efficiently. The UK has set an ambitious target in the form of the Manchester Prize – a resource valued at £1m per year for a decade which is specifically focused on developing AI technology. Similarly, Britain apart from maintaining AI safety is the first state-backed institute devoted exclusively to research in this area. 

The Institute surged over its rivals, in that the quality of model safety inspection has already drastically enhanced, and a research team broadened. During the last month, the AI system signed a landmark deal with the US on recent AI safety protocols. The latter two countries adduce the significance of cooperation in AI during the summit preparations. The UK and the ROK are setting a global precedent by cooperation only in terms of ensuring the safety, inclusiveness, and level of consistency of AI development while addressing the critical issues of the modern world.

This article originally appeared in  Artificial Intelligence 

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