Artificial intelligence poses a wide range of risks, including the possibility for AI tools to produce disinformation, disrupt certain sectors of the labor market, and magnify biases that exist within the data sets systems have been trained on, according to a new discussion paper from the UK government, published ahead of its AI Safety Summit next week.
The report doubles down on calls for a global consensus to tackling potential harms, and will be distributed to attendees of the summit with the aim of informing discussions and helping to build a shared global understanding of the risks posed by frontier AI, the government said in a statement released alongside the report.
The term frontier AI refers to highly capable foundation models that could exhibit dangerous capabilities.
The report consists of three parts, opening with an outline of the capabilities and risks of frontier AI, including how things might improve in the future as well as the risks that are currently present.
The second part looks at the safety and security risks of generative AI, while the last section focuses on what the Government Office for Science considers the key uncertainties in frontier AI, considering potential scenarios that could take place by 2023.
“There are a range of views in the scientific, expert and global communities about the risks in relation to the rapid progress in frontier AI, which is expected to continue to evolve in the coming years at rapid speed,” the government said, adding that the document draws on various sources, including UK intelligence assessments.
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