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How to make AI safe, according to the tech giants, with Rebecca Finlay, CEO of PAI

Oct 30, 2023

Rebecca Finlay, CEO of PAI, discusses the guidelines developed by the Partnership on AI to address risks associated with advanced AI systems. Topics include societal risks, synthetic media framework, non-regulatory levers for responsible use of technology, public input for AI guidance, and the idea of a moratorium on advanced AI development.

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Quick takeaways

The Partnership on AI aims to address the risks and societal impact of artificial intelligence by bringing together tech giants, academia, media, and society.

PAI's guidelines for AI development focus on understanding and addressing both current and future risks, including bias, transparency, superintelligence, and technological unemployment.

Deep dives

The partnership on AI and its guidelines

The Partnership on AI (PAI) is an organization that aims to bring together tech giants, academia, media, and society to address the risks and societal impact of artificial intelligence (AI). PAI was launched in 2016, and by 2019, over a hundred organizations including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Apple, and Baidu had joined. PAI's guest, Rebecca Finley, discusses how PAI developed a set of guidelines to help companies developing advanced AI systems. These guidelines focus on understanding and addressing both current and future risks associated with AI, with a goal of establishing PAI's guidelines as the basis for global self-regulation in the AI industry.

Introduction

2min

Understanding and Managing Risks Associated with AI

12min

Non-Regulatory Levers for Promoting Responsible Use of Technology

6min

Discussion on a Two-Day Meeting in London and the Importance of Public Input for AI Guidance

3min

Exploring the Idea of a Moratorium on Advanced AI

7min

The Partnership on AI was launched back in September 2016, during an earlier flurry of interest in AI, as a forum for the tech giants to meet leaders from academia, the media, and what used to be called pressure groups and are now called civil society. By 2019 more than 100 of those organisations had joined.

The founding tech giants were Amazon, Facebook, Google, DeepMind, Microsoft, and IBM. Apple joined a year later and Baidu joined in 2018.

Our guest in this episode is Rebecca Finlay, who joined the PAI board in early 2020 and was appointed CEO in October 2021. Rebecca is a Canadian who started her career in banking, and then led marketing and policy development groups in a number of Canadian healthcare and scientific research organisations.

In the run-up to the Bletchley Park Global Summit on AI, the Partnership on AI has launched a set of guidelines to help the companies that are developing advanced AI systems and making them available to you and me. Rebecca will be addressing the delegates at Bletchley, and no doubt hoping that the summit will establish the PAI guidelines as the basis for global self-regulation of the AI industry.

Selected follow-ups:
https://partnershiponai.org/
https://partnershiponai.org/team/#rebecca-finlay-staff
https://partnershiponai.org/modeldeployment/

An open event at Wilton Hall, Bletchley, the afternoon before the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit starts: https://lu.ma/n9qmn4h6

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration