00:00Paris has been full of tech company executives and world leaders grappling with how artificial
00:07intelligence should develop.
00:09Over the past few days, all kinds of ideas and initiatives have been discussed.
00:14Professor Song Yi has returned to Paris to discuss the rapid development on AI by some
00:19tech corporations.
00:21Many of the AI companies now, they choose not to talk about AI ethics and safety, but
00:27I think this is completely wrong.
00:30Actually the relationship between AI development and safety is not that they drag each other,
00:36they will have negative influence to each other, no.
00:39Actually you can build AI which is very powerful from the development point of view, but still
00:45you keep it really safe.
00:47So this is scientifically solid.
00:50The Paris Summit's declaration seemed to antagonize both the US government with references to
00:55diversity, gender and disinformation, as well as the UK government, by ignoring the
01:00scientific and political consensus around risks from smarter-than-human AI systems that
01:06was agreed at Bletchley Park in late 2023.
01:10One argument is to allow companies to innovate.
01:14Now today we're in the absurd situation where there are more safety standards on a San Francisco-based
01:18company that wants to sell sandwiches than the ones that sell superintelligence.
01:24It's completely nuts.
01:25As soon as you have the safety standards there, companies will innovate to meet them and give
01:30us powerful AI that's actually safe tools that work for us, rather than completely useless
01:37superintelligent things that just make us obsolete and take over.
01:42As important as the main summit were a myriad of other events organized throughout central
01:47Paris, debates about AI, after speeches, in private meetings and panel discussions
01:54on the innovation and how to develop it safely for the benefit of everybody.
01:59At this panel, organized by China's AI Safety and Development Association, many experts
02:05seem to agree there should be international cooperation on artificial intelligence and
02:11transparency too.
02:13The solution is in our hands.
02:15We can decide which direction we want to go, how far can we go, and how quickly should
02:20we go.
02:21So I think that's where we feel that AI governance, particularly at the global level, is critical.
02:29President Macron, in his address at the end of the first day of the summit, injected some
02:33humor into the French government's intention to invest US$112 billion in new data centers
02:40and power for AI technology in France.
02:43I have a good friend in the other part of the ocean saying, drill, baby, drill.
02:49Here, there is no need to drill.
02:52It's just plug, baby, plug.
02:55Electricity is available.
02:57You can plug it.
02:59It's ready.
03:00The balance and the challenges of how to regulate and by how much, while allowing tech companies
03:06to innovate, will continue long after this AI Action Summit.
03:11Yolanda David, CGTN, Paris.
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