In order to further promote the steady and beneficial development of digital technology, achieve precise and efficient digital governance, ensure that digital technology can better empower economic, social and ecological sustainable development, and promote the construction of a digital community with a shared future, all parties involved in the development of digital technology should follow the following principles
Weaving a global network of AI governance
Recent development and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology are too fast, and existing regulatory frameworks are very hard to keep pace with their speed. Much progress in AI technology, such as generative AI, has created more challenges than our society can solve in time. For example, generative AI-based synthetic disinformation has created a huge … Continue reading Weaving a global network of AI governance
AI for the good of international peace and security
There is no doubt that AI is a powerful, enabling technology which can be used to push forward global sustainable development. When investigating the use of AI for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we find that most of the efforts are on AI for quality education and AI for healthcare, while less efforts have been put … Continue reading AI for the good of international peace and security
Avoiding Catastrophic Risks for Healthy Development of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly a driving force for the advancement of society, particularly as one of the key enabling technologies to advance global sustainable development. However, this does not mean that AI does not carry potential risks or that the need to maximize the benefits of AI should lead us to ignore its potential … Continue reading Avoiding Catastrophic Risks for Healthy Development of AI
Voices from China on “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”
On March 29th, 2023, the Future of Life Institute initiated the "Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter". Although the open letter received support from numerous international scholars, industry leaders, and some political representatives, the international community expressed complementary opinions on the open letter through various channels. While some Chinese professionals participated in signing the … Continue reading Voices from China on “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”
Whether We Can and Should Develop Strong AI: A Survey in China
Whether We Can and Should Develop Strong AI: A Survey in China Authors: Yi Zeng, Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, serving as Deputy Director of the Brain-inspired Intelligence Laboratory, and Director of the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Governance, and Founding Director of Center for Long-term Artificial … Continue reading Whether We Can and Should Develop Strong AI: A Survey in China
Principles on Symbiosis for Natural Life and Living AI
The development of Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence will make life take a variety of forms, and the development vision of Human-centered Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence needs to be refined as soon as possible and better prepared as possible to cope with future changes and evolution. In the future society, the development of Artificial … Continue reading Principles on Symbiosis for Natural Life and Living AI
The 3rd Cross-cultural AI Ethics and Governance workshop
The recording of all the talks and panel discussions at the 2022 Cross-cultural AI Ethics and Governance workshop is available at https://www.youtube.com/@center-for-long-term-ai/videos This is an ongoing and the 3rd version of the workshop series (2019-2022) with a collaboration with Cambridge LCFI, especially support from Huw Price and Sean O hEigeartaigh. Enjoy opinions and views from Sean O … Continue reading The 3rd Cross-cultural AI Ethics and Governance workshop
Principles on Military Artificial Intelligence [Draft for Comments]
Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) has already brought great risks and challenges to the world, and we should be vigilant against the lowering of the threshold of war due to the development of military AI, and reduce avoidable disasters. "Defense Artificial Intelligence and Arms Control Network" advocates that the design, research, development, use and deployment of … Continue reading Principles on Military Artificial Intelligence [Draft for Comments]
Announcing Defense AI and Arms Control Network
Military and Defense AI is already happening, and to some extent unavoidable. As responsible researchers, practitioners, policy makers in related fields, we should raise our concerns, try our best to avoid potential harms to the human society and ecology, and guide its necessary development, if not fully avoidable. Defense AI and Arms Control Network is … Continue reading Announcing Defense AI and Arms Control Network