Terror warning: Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt also highlighted the malicious use of AI in an interview with the BBC after the Paris AI Action Summit where he warned that it could be used by terrorists or “rogue states” to create weapons that harm innocent people.
“Think about North Korea, or Iran, or even Russia, who have some evil goal. This technology is fast enough for them to adopt that they could misuse it and do real harm,” Schmidt said, adding that it could even mean creating weapons to facilitate “a bad biological attack.”
UK SWITCHES FROM SAFETY TO SECURITY: Britain’s AI Safety Institute, will be recast as a “Security Institute,” tech secretary Peter Kyle will announce at the Munich Security Conference today, reports our colleague Tom Bristow.
Love you too: The government said in a press release overnight that national security and protecting citizens from crime will become the “founding principles” of how it sees responsible AI development.
That means: Looking at how the technology can be used to develop chemical and biological weapons, how it can be used to carry out cyberattacks, as well as fraud and child sexual abuse, but Kyle said that the AISI’s work won’t change, while AISI chair Ian Hogarth said it marked the “next step” of the institute.
POLAND HEART GOOGLE: Poland’s state-backed development fund struck an AI cooperation deal with Google that will secure the country’s access to cutting-edge AI tools and see the search giant commit to a $5 million program to train 1 million Poles in AI, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday while hosting Google CEO Sundar Pichai, writes in our colleague Wojciech Kość.