Setting boundaries for AI

Balancing regulation without stifling innovation is just one of the many challenges facing Rishi Sunak’s safety summit at Bletchley Park last week, writes James Palmer

Last week the UK hosted the world’s first-ever global AI safety summit. As AI develops at an unprecedented rate, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is inviting countries, academics, and executives from AI companies to Bletchley Park to discuss regulations and restrictions.

The goal is to find common ground and a consistent global approach to surface-level AI regulations and safety to ensure that no country is left exposed or disadvantaged.

But is a one-size-fits-all set of rules counter-productive?

After all, the use of AI in business and its consequent need for regulation varies depending on the industry, company, role, function, and all the way down to the task itself. If Sunak and the summit attendees want to achieve their safer and fairer AI development goals, will they need to dive deeper?

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