【英语阅读】AI innovation

Nick Clegg, one of the most powerful executives, has compared the hype over artificial intelligence to the 1980s "moral panic" over video games, which gives a warning to international politicians and re-gulators when they gather for a two-day conference at Bletchley Park on AI safety. 

"New technologies always lead to hype," Clegg stated. "They often lead to excessive passion among the advocates and excessive pessimism among the critics. I remember the 80s. There was this moral panic about video games. There was moral panic about radio, the bicycle, and the Internet." 

Much of the conversation this week will focus on longer-term risks, including the potential for an AI system to escape human control, with many experts warning that a sufficiently advanced system could even pose a threat to humanity itself. 

"The risks posed by frontier AI are se-rious and it is critical that we work together to recognise these risks," Michelle Donelan, the UK's science and technology secretary, said before the conference. "This conference provides an opportunity for us to ensure we have the right people gathered around the table to discuss how we can mitigate these risks moving forward. Only then will we be able to truly harvest the benefits of this innovative technology in a responsible man-ner." 

Officials say one of the main aims of the conference is to persuade those at the cutting edge of developing AI technology to slow down their efforts to build the most advanced models. 

But Clegg's comments suggest that is likely to be a hard challenge. He said too much government involvement may stand in the way of AI innovation. "In this area, it is really important to allow innovators, builders to develop these technologies without im-mediately assuming that whatever they do next is going to pose some existential risk."

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