G7 leaders announced on Saturday the formation of a future “task force” on artificial intelligence (AI), to lead discussions on the “responsible use” of these tools and the risks they pose, including “disinformation.”
“We instruct relevant ministers to establish the Hiroshima process on AI, through a working group built in cooperation with international organizations, for discussions on generative AI by the end of the year,” according to the G7 press release. , meeting from Friday to Sunday in this Japanese city.
A working group as AI grows increasingly concerned
Like ChatGPT, the best known of them at the moment, generative AI software (capable of producing computer code, text, images, sound, video, etc.) is booming around the world, while causing a deep concern in many quarters.
The G7 working group discussions on the subject will thus be able to focus on “governance, the protection of intellectual property rights” and the “responsible use” of these new technologies, but also on the means to counter “the manipulation of ‘information’ and ‘disinformation’ through these tools.
“We recognize the importance of procedures that promote transparency, openness, fair processes, impartiality, respect for privacy, and inclusion to promote responsible AI,” the leaders of this group of large industrialized democracies (United States) also insisted. , Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy and Canada).
Source: BFM TV
