the world will be affected by AI. Those will not all be lost, but even a small percentage of lost jobs will have significant economic, social and political implications. Governments should prepare now. What rules are needed to ensure that AI delivers the greatest benefits and the least harm? The world over, researchers, policymakers and executives are listing a wide variety of risks and harms from the use of AI. Some focus on risks they consider existential and to be anticipated with more powerful AI in the future, while others point to the known risks and harms affecting democracy, equal treatment and fraud today. There is a lively debate about what counts as the most urgent, but little debate about the fact that there is risk associated with the use of AI. Governments should ensure they develop criteria and guardrails through regulation, but also use investments and government spending wisely to shape AI markets.
The growth of large tech companies often does not translate into job creation but rather into capital concentration”
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On the international level we see a lot of activity. The European Union’s AI Act has been adopted as the first comprehensive and legally binding
of jobs globally will be affected by artificial
law on AI in the democratic world. The United Nations has invited an advisory body to look at the global governance of AI, and there are initiatives at the G7 with the Hiroshima AI Process, as well as at the OECD. While it is understandable to try to collaborate across borders, the need for domestic regulation, especially in the United States, should not be overlooked. With its high concentration of AI companies, the US would set the tone for the world if it actually adopted AI laws. It’s not only about adopting new regulations for AI, though; it’s also about enforcing existing principles and laws in new contexts. We don’t need AI to understand that non-discrimination, antitrust rules and national security are important protections that governments must uphold and enforce. The work I am involved with as a member of the UN AI Advisory Board focuses on ensuring global AI governance is anchored in international law, based on universal human rights and inclusive with a global outlook. To make that a reality, global rules are urgently needed. Too often people in the Global South or in developing economies are left out of the analysis and policy debates about AI. The UN is in a unique position to ensure it looks at AI governance needs through a truly global lens. Hopefully, the least we can achieve is to develop a bottom line of rights protecting AI governance that countries will use as a minimum threshold, although some countries may decide to adopt more ambitious rules. How can G7 governors and their leaders best help? G7 members have taken a strong step by adopting the Hiroshima AI Process with the code of conduct on AI as well as several ministerial declarations. For the articulated principles in these statements to become more meaningful, they should be operationalised. I hope the Apulia Summit will dedicate time to this important next phase of the G7’s AI leadership.
MARIETJE SCHAAKE Marietje Schaake is international policy director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center and international policy fellow
at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial
Intelligence. Between 2009 and 2019, she served as a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch liberal democratic party, where she focused on trade, foreign affairs and technology policies. She writes a monthly column for the Financial Times and serves on the AI Advisory Body of the United Nations. She is also an advisory board member of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the European Council on Foreign Relations, the Observer Research Foundation and AccessNow.
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