I was honored to be a member of the steering committee under the impressive leadership of summit envoy Anne Boubolot. Regular working group consultations and ideas appeals have sought a wide range of advice on five summit themes: public interest, future of work, trust, global governance and innovation.
By expanding the opening, the summit has catalyzed a series of side events over the course of a week since Paris, encompassing thousands of people and hundreds of organizations around the world. Members of the PAI team work at a variety of events, ranging from frontier and foundation models safety and science to participatory design and worker audio, youth and education, standards, transparency and evaluation. I shared it.
At each event, they called on more than 80 governments attending the summit to actively advance the public interest in four ways.
Supports multi-stakeholder engagement and civic engagement. Invest in open research and innovation. Supports workers and skill development. Working with other governments to promote interoperability across the national assurance ecosystem
At a high level, the final summit statement addressed most of these topics, signed by 60 governments, with the UK and the US signed as prominent non-signers. This is a positive and comprehensive signal regarding the importance of multilateral and multi-board holders’ attention to the responsible development of AI technology. At the end of the summit, India announced that it will hold its next AI summit (adjective to be decided).
So where do we go from here?
How can the next summit be built on the foundations of the UK, South Korea and France summits and advance new regions of concrete impact? How does the Summit Series connect to other international initiatives, along with groups of different countries, including the Bletchley Park Declaration, the G7 Hiroshima Code of Conduct and the United Nations Global Digital Compact? How will the country decide to promote its national interests at this time?
If our goal is to ensure that there are relatively consistent and interoperable systems of AI governance that are widely adopted to promote innovation among citizens of each country, these questions need to be answered. There is. When we are planning for India, we have the opportunity to set up a collective agenda and a clear roadmap for how we get there and what role the summit will play.
At Pai, we work with our partners and beyond to clarify what a vibrant, effective accountability and assurance ecosystem looks like. The work was fueled last week by an event held in Paris before the summit. While we often gather fragmented efforts in audits, standards, disclosures and evaluations, opportunities to better understand how they fit in to enable responsible and resilient innovation. There is.
Two other notes from the Paris Summit include the current launch of AI, a global foundation and incubator to advance AI as a public good. With the initial $400 million donations and ongoing support, the initiative focuses on public datasets, smaller, more sustainable models, and promotes AI’s accountability ecosystems. The purpose is to fund projects that will be carried out for. Coordinated work in these areas is important to find new ways to use AI for the benefit of society.
It was also good to see the trustworthy AI pledge in the work world, detailing the company’s key commitments to investing in workers, protecting workers’ privacy and training, and developing workers’ digital skills. is. In particular, we are pleased to include explicitly including protecting the rights of data-enhancing workers across our global data supply chain. PAI’s Responsible Data Enhancement and Shared Prosperity Guidelines and Resources can inform the Summit’s future work themes and support the implementation of the pledge. Despite not signing the summit statement, the US government spoke about its commitment to guarantee American workers a seat at the table.
Governments, technology companies, civil society and academia all play a key role in determining what the future of AI looks like. The AI Action Summit and its surrounding events showed energy and desire for action. It’s up to us all to build that future and make it a reality now.
