The lively discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) continues. Last week, dozens of AI experts — including the CEOs of OpenAI, Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) DeepMind and Anthropic — signed an open statement with a single sentence: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.”
Despite the ominous statement, there is no shortage of regulatory efforts to mitigate the negative impacts of AI. In China, the “improvement of governance” in digital data and AI is being discussed by President Xi Jinping and prominent members of the Communist party. The Australian government has announced a sudden eight-week consultation that will seek to understand whether any “high-risk” AI tools should be banned.