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Transcript/Script US – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (TV)
HEADLINE: US Pushes for Global Protections for Threats Posed by AI
TEASER: VP Harris, at London summit, touts US road map for protections for threats posed by generative artificial intelligence
PUBLISHED: 11/01/223 at 9:30 pm
BYLINE: Anita Powell
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DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: AP, AFP, Zoom
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SCRIPT EDITORS: Mia Bush, Sharon Shahid
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[[U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris says leaders have "a moral, ethical and societal duty" to protect humans from the dangers posed by artificial intelligence. She is pushing for a global road map at a summit on the topic in London. Analysts agree and say one element needs to be constant: human oversight. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from Washington. ]]
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Artificial intelligence is cool. People have uploaded massive amounts of data into machines — which can calculate faster and have better memory than humans — to make art
to spot drowning swimmers
to save lives through better medical diagnostics
and to make weird noises.
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But like every other tool, AI is subject to its users’ intentions and can be used to deceive, misinform or hurt people.
Earlier this week, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing new standards, including requiring major AI developers to report their safety test results and other critical information to the U.S. government.
Vice President Kamala Harris, in London for an AI safety summit Wednesday, also announced the foundation of the government’s AI Safety Institute and released draft policy guidance on the government’s use of AI and a declaration of the responsible military applications.
((US Vice President Kamala Harris))
"To provide order and stability in the midst of global technological change, I firmly believe that we must be guided by a common set of understandings among nations. And that is why the United States will continue to work with our allies and partners to apply existing international rules and norms to AI, and work to create new rules and norms.”
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U.S. lawmakers held hearings on the matter earlier this year, where industry leaders like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman detailed his concerns.
((Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO)) ((May 17, 2023))
“My worst fears are that we cause significant — we, the field, the technology, the industry — cause significant harm to the world. I think that could happen in a lot of different ways.”
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At the London summit, Elon Musk, a billionaire entrepreneur who is working on his own generative AI program, says he sees AI as “one of the biggest threats” to society. He called for a “third-party referee.”
((Elon Musk, Tech Entrepreneur))
"Here we are, for the first time, really in human history, with something that's going to be far more intelligent than us. So, it's not clear to me we can actually control such a thing. But I think we can aspire to guide it in a direction that's beneficial to humanity. But I do think it's one of the existential risks that we face, and it's potentially the most pressing one.”
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Analysts say these government and tech officials don’t need a one-size-fits-all solution, but rather an alignment of values — and, critically, human oversight.
((Radio intro: Jessica Brandt is policy director for the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution))
((Jessica Brandt, Brookings Institution)) ((Mandatory credit: Zoom))
“It's OK to have multiple different approaches, and then also, where possible, coordinate to ensure that democratic values take root in the systems that govern technology globally.”
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But in the end, that is both AI’s strength and weakness: that — so far at least — it appears to be limited by a force that is unpredictable, capable of benevolence and evil,
and often, just … weird: Human nature.
((Anita Powell, VOA News, Washington))
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