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The heads of Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as billionaire Elon Musk, have pledged to curb the pace of AI development, following unsolicited hostile actions by some AI tools in controlled settings. Samar Fatima is a researcher at the RMIT Enterprise AI and Data Analytics Hub. She questions why the big tech companies have proposed to slow down the rapid development of AI.

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00:02Yeah, I think the warnings to slow down AI sounds very, you know, interesting and sounds very, you know, something
00:10that has a lot of significant value.
00:11But I think we need to get like a background check to that, like what motivated these big US-based
00:19tech companies to come forward and propose the idea to slow down AI.
00:23We really need to have like a background information for that.
00:26So until recently, like in last few months, there has been a couple of incidents where some of the models
00:32were actually, you know, going beyond the human control and trying to attack some other models or causing some of
00:38the security incidents.
00:40So one significant incident happened when some open AI models actually, they were, you know, out of human permission.
00:48They were dealing with some databases in Hugging Face, another big data platform.
00:54So at that time, a Chinese model actually was used to kind of get those models out of the system.
01:02So in one way, we can say that this Chinese model has the capacity to deal with what the uncontrollable
01:08models were actually doing.
01:09So the background information here matters because is it something that US companies, which are, of course, some of the
01:18godfathers of AI who has been dictating how the AI future would look like, kind of pushed back by this
01:24Chinese model.
01:25So this announcement really kind of needs drilling down the information and check that whether this is the capability gap
01:33that needs to be the drivers or motivation to kind of stop other big tech companies to kind of put
01:43a stop on AI progress.
01:45And meanwhile, making up for that time that they might need to, you know, come up at pace with them.
01:51So this could be one perspective.
01:54Yeah.
01:55However, if we kind of look at slowing down AI, we really need to figure it out or describe how
02:01to interpret slowing down AI, because it could be multiple.
02:04There could be many interpretations for that.
02:07I think the three-point agenda proposed by Anthropic CEO has the embedded evaluators is something that is new, that
02:15has not always been part of the debate and comparison to, you know, the collaboration between governments and collaborations between
02:22industries.
02:22So with embedded partners or embedded evaluators, it is something I would say another component in the AI ecosystem, which
02:30is like a third party that could actually evaluate or verify the outputs produced by AI that in one way
02:36would not just slow down, but rather would have more guardrails on the product, the responses generated by AI or
02:44the, you know, products designed by AI.
02:47Yeah, I think I'm afraid that we might leading towards a crisis that we might have as the global economy
02:54about climate change, because we have all, like all the countries in the world have always been talking about this,
03:00but there is no consensus or no proper, you know, regulation that is consistently, you know, approved by all the
03:08governments and being implemented in, you know, practice.
03:11So I'm afraid, so I'm afraid, so I'm afraid if we are leading towards something like that, because it is
03:15extremely difficult to bring all the countries and the jurisdictions to one point in control and suggest that this is
03:22how the AI regulations would look like.
03:24If we look at the European Union AI Act, it has different kinds of responsibilities, accountability mechanisms that are in
03:31place.
03:31So it would be a challenge, so it would be a challenge, and it is a huge challenge.
03:36I think it starts from the trust.
03:39The foundation of this whole mechanism slowing down AI or more acceptable to AI is having the trust-worthy relationship,
03:47especially with those who are key players in the tech development.
03:51So I think it starts with them disclosing what kind of advancement they have reached in terms of their models,
03:58what consequences they are expecting, and how they propose to cater it down or to govern it.
04:05And it starts with them, basically, and then it could translate or cascade to the economies or other tech companies
04:13in the world.
04:14And it is not just the monetary being, you know, possible to have the losses for financial, but also if
04:23a jurisdiction has less restrictions, the talent might relocate to that.
04:27In fact, the data scientists or the other infrastructure facilities might relocate to jurisdictions that have limited restrictions.
04:36So it may slowing down would mean a lot of economic consequences as long as, and also with the talent
04:45development and losing the control of sovereign AI, that is also another goal for countries to have the in-house
04:51capabilities for AI.
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