The "landmark" order directs federal
agencies to set new safety standards for AI systems. It also
requires developers to share their safety test results and other
critical information with the US government, according to a
White House statement.
UK: Bletchley Park meeting - „beginnings" or „missed
opportunities"?
On Wednesday, countries including the United Kingdom, United
States and China agreed the "need for international action" as
political and tech leaders gathered for the world's first summit
on artificial intelligence (AI) safety. UK technology minister
Michelle Donelan said the declaration "really outlines for the
first time the world coming together to identify this problem".
The objective of the two-day meeting held at historic Bletchley
Park, north of London, where the Nazi-Germany Enigma code was
cracked during World War 2, was to find "an international
consensus" on the challenges presented by AI and how to address
them and, for follow-up, it will propose the creation of a
global panel of experts to make periodic reports.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the invitation to
China - a country that some accuse of technological espionage -
"because a serious strategy cannot be developed if the global
potential" of the sector is not involved.
After the recent trilateral agreement between Italy, Germany and
France the Bletchey Park meeting marked "the beginning of a
process of involvement of other continents to achieve what we
hope for: a new global alliance, as for the climate, on the
rules and protections to be adopted in response to the challenge
of artificial intelligence", Urso noted.
However, more than 100 UK and international organisations,
experts and campaigners published an open letter Monday to
Sunak, branding the summit a "missed opportunity" and too
tailored towards "big tech". The coalition - which includes
unions, rights groups like Amnesty International and tech
community voices - warned "communities and workers most affected
by AI have been marginalised", with the invites "selective and
limited".
AI beyond the European Union
In Europe, countries that are not directly involved in
regulatory matters such as the EU's AI Act, or in the G7
meeting, are nevertheless taking their own steps to tackle AI.
In North Macedonia, for example, at the initiative of the Fund
for Innovation and Technology Development (FITD), a working
group was formed in September 2021 to create the first National
Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. The country will also host
the 6th Regional E-commerce Conference in Skopje on November 14,
with a focus on the use of AI's potential. Representatives of
companies such as Nestlé, Meta, Zalando, Allegro and Reebok,
among others, will address the conference. The event is expected
to bring together more than 600 entrepreneurs, e-traders,
company directors and government representatives from North
Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.
Meanwhile, Albania aims to become part of the European Union's
Digital Europe program, which will be implemented until 2027.
The Albanian government has already approved the draft law
ratifying the agreement between the Republic of Albania and the
European Union for participation in the Union's program "Digital
Europe", which is currently receiving the approval of the
committees of the Albanian parliament.
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