This week, AI
experts, politicians, and CEOs will gather to ask an important question:
Can the United States, China, or anyone else agree on how artificial
intelligence should be used and controlled?
The
World Economic Forum, the international organization that brings
together the world’s rich and powerful to discuss global issues at Davos
each year, will host the event in San Francisco.
The
WEF will also announce the creation of an “AI Council” designed to find
common ground on policy between nations that increasingly seem at odds
over the power and the potential of AI and other emerging technologies
(see “Trump’s feud with Huawei and China could lead to the Balkanization of tech”).
The
issue is of paramount importance given the current geopolitical winds.
AI is widely viewed as critical to national competitiveness and
geopolitical advantage. The effort to find common ground is also
important considering the way technology is driving a wedge between
countries, especially the United States and its big economic rival,
China.
“Many see AI through the lens of economic and geopolitical competition,” says Michael Sellitto,
deputy director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI.
“[They] tend to create barriers that preserve their perceived strategic
advantages, in access to data or research, for example.”
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