G7 should adopt ‘risk-based’ AI regulation

  • May 1, 2023
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G7 should adopt ‘risk-based’ AI regulation

Subject :Science and Technology

Section: Awareness in IT

News in Brief

  • G7 advanced nations should adopt “risk-based” regulation on artificial intelligence, their digital ministers agreed in a joint statement issued at the end of a two-day meeting in Japan.
  • They also insisted to “preserve an open and enabling environment” for the development of AI technologies and be based on democratic values.
  • This comes as European lawmakers hurry to introduce an AI Act to enforce rules on emerging tools such as ChatGPT.
  • Policy instruments to achieve the common vision and goal of trustworthy AI may vary across G7 members.
  • The top tech officials from G7 – Britain, Canada, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States – met in Takasaki, a city about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Tokyo.

ChatGPT

  • A generative AI tools
  • A chatbot developed by Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI
  • Has become the fastest-growing app in history since its launch

Future G7 discussions on generative AI

To be convened on topics like

  • Governance
  • How to safeguard intellectual property rights including copyright
  • Promote transparency
  • Address disinformation including information manipulation by foreign forces

Previous Issues with AI Tools

  • Italy, a G7 member, took ChatGPT offline or banned it recently to investigate its potential breach of personal data rules. The move has inspired fellow European privacy regulators to launch probes. Italy lifted the ban.
  • EU lawmakers agree a new draft of its upcoming AI Act, including copyright protection measures for generative AI. It may include labelling obligations for AI-generated images or music.

Japan’s Positive View on AI

  • Japan took an accommodative approach on AI developers, pledging support for public and industrial adoption of AI.
  • Hopes for G7 to agree on agile or flexible governance, rather than hindering, catch-all regulation over AI technology
  • Japan while hosting the G7 Summit in Hiroshima in late May, will discuss AI rules with world leaders.

About Takasaki

  • A transport and business hub
  • A city of the daruma doll – associated with ShorinzanDarumaji Temple of Zen Buddhism. Daruma dolls – a popular handicraft and good luck charm, made from papier mache using a strong, fibrous traditional paper called washi, represented is the Bodhidharma – a legendary monk credited with bringing Buddhism to China.

About G7

  • The Group of Seven (G7) is an inter-governmental political forum consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
  • Its members are the world’s largest IMF advanced economies and wealthiest liberal democracies
  • As of 2020, the collective group accounts for a little over 50% of global net wealth (which is $418 trillion), 32 to 46 percent of global gross domestic product, and about 770 million people or 10 percent of the world’s population
  • Since the start of 2023, Japan has taken over the presidency of the G7. Germany was 2022 chair.
  • The G7 was founded primarily to facilitate shared macroeconomic initiatives in response to contemporary economic problems.
  • Following the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, G7 finance ministers pledged to take “all necessary steps” to stem the crisis.
  • Presently, The G7 has continued to take a strong stance against Russia’s “destabilisingbehaviour and malign activities” in Ukraine and elsewhere around the world
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