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The UK joined the US in refusing to sign a declaration on “inclusive and sustainable” artificial intelligence at the Paris AI summit.
This marks a shift for the UK, which under its last government set out to become a global leader in AI safety.
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said the UK would only sign up to initiatives in its “national interests”.
Relevant factors include Trump’s return to the White House, the UK’s increasingly urgent need for growth and a global pivot from regulation to innovation.
The summit’s announcement of a child safety initiative by Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord is a case in point.
The Robust Open Online Safety Tools initiative wants to make the moderation of child sexual abuse material easier with open-source AI tools.
This is less about how to make AI safer than how AI can make the world safer. Then again, it could work.
