How Artificial is Human Intelligence -- and Humanity? Consideration of AI Safety versus Safety from Human Artifice {PT2}
Dangerous development of AI? Safety of AI? As implied above, it is appropriate to ask how "artificial" was the collective intelligence evident at the AI Safety Summit -- and how this might be best understood in the light of warnings immediately before the event (Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss, The Guardian, 20 October 2023; Editorial: Why the UK-led global AI summit is missing the point (Nature, 31 October 2023)). Following the questionable pattern of many international declarations of the past, attention will necessarily focus on the Bletchley Declaration signed at the AI Safety Summit: Alex McFarland: What is the Bletchley Declaration Signed by 28 Countries? (Unite.ai, 3 November 2023) Chris Stokel-Walker: UK AI summit: Countries agree declaration on frontier AI risks (New Scientist, 1 November 2023; UK AI summit: US-led AI pledge threatens to overshadow Bletchley Park, New Scientist, 2 November 2023) Matthew Sparkes: UK AI sum