Rishi Sunak talks 'international collaboration' on AI with Google's Sundar Pichai

Rishi Sunak held a backstage gathering with the brag of Google connected Friday arsenic portion of his ongoing discussions with tech leaders astir the challenges posed by artificial intelligence.

The premier curate met with Sundar Pichai, the main enforcement of Google's genitor institution Alphabet, astatine the Darlington Economic Campus.

They discussed the challenges posed by AI arsenic good arsenic increasing the UK's tech manufacture and the government's ambition to make Britain a subject and exertion superpower.

On artificial intelligence, a Downing Street spokesperson said: "They spoke astir striking the close equilibrium to guarantee the close regulatory guardrails are successful place, whilst driving guardant innovation.

"They discussed imaginable opportunities for manufacture and planetary collaboration connected harmless and liable AI improvement and agreed to stay successful interaction connected this issue."

Mr Sunak has already held talks this week with tech bosses including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

The premier curate praised AI arsenic "the defining exertion of our clip with the imaginable to positively alteration humanity".

But helium besides discussed the request to modulate artificial quality to mitigate risks, ranging from disinformation and nationalist information to "existential threats".

The explosive maturation of AI and its aggregate applications has seen a proliferation of fake AI-generated images, AI photography mimicry and cloned euphony tracks.

Last week BT Group said it volition chopped up to 55,000 jobs by the extremity of the decade amid plans to displacement to AI and automated services.

There are increasing concerns that the exertion could impact jobs and education, while some experts person adjacent warned almighty AI systems "can't beryllium controlled".

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Leaders successful subject and tech are pushing for greater regularisation truthful the benefits of AI tin beryllium utilised portion mitigating the risks.

Writing successful the Financial Times this week, Mr Pichai called AI "the astir profound exertion humanity is moving connected today", citing aesculapian advances and "its quality to assistance thousands of Ukrainian refugees… pass successful their caller homes".

He said it AI is "too important not to regulate, and excessively important not to modulate well".

It comes amid increasing warnings from experts successful the field.

Former Government main technological advisor Sir Patrick Vallance has warned that AI could person a comparable interaction connected jobs with the concern revolution.

And earlier this period Geoffrey Hinton, the antheral wide seen arsenic the godfather of AI, warned immoderate of the dangers of AI chatbots are "quite scary" arsenic helium discontinue his occupation astatine Google.

Despite concerns surrounding AI, the exertion has made strides successful the technological and aesculapian fields, including a caller trial developed to perchance assistance doctors diagnose bosom attacks much rapidly and much accurately.

This week it emerged a antheral paralysed successful a cycling mishap 10 years agone is present capable to locomotion again due to the fact that of a wireless integer nexus betwixt his encephalon and spinal cord.

Scientists person besides utilized AI to make a strategy to observe tsunamis and earthquakes.