The Daily Telegraph, October 27, Sir Iain Duncan Smith
Next week, the United Kingdom is to host an international summit, a crucial gathering to discuss the applications and risks associated with artificial intelligence (AI).
This initiative is a step in the right direction, but with China attending it makes it very difficult for the summit to discuss the already huge and growing threat posed by that country.
A key purpose of the summit must address concerns that China is nefariously applying AI to genomics and the national security impact this poses. Unless concrete steps are taken to protect genomic data of UK citizens, the AI Summit will only show how little the UK Government understands the interplay between AI and genomics – the real existential challenge that needs containing.
Among the world leaders in AI, China has created the most extensive surveillance state ever imagined, where AI is leveraged to monitor its citizens’ daily lives.
Inviting the creator of a dystopian nightmare to help shape the global application of this technology seems foolhardy, especially as they are increasingly misusing AI as a tool overseas, with Microsoft recently exposing China’s use of such software to influence American voters.
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