Eric Sears, director of technology in the public interest, sharing information on what is necessary to ensure that AI governance centers, human rights, community and security.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an important animated force of national security and geopolitics. In recent years, a dangerous story of “AI’s arms race” has taken the front of the stage, by which the United States and China are in competition to reach the increasingly advanced AI as medium to global superiority. In the United States, the main companies of AI and technological executives often adopt this story, and for the reason: they and their investors benefit considerably, because advanced AI systems are focused on industry and property.
While the in -depth links between Silicon Valley and Washington, DC, have long existed, the links are close that never that technological companies and their leaders pursue precious government contracts and seek to shape the policy and regulation of AI in their interest. The military, intelligence agencies and the police are increasingly incorporating AI technologies into surveillance, threat assessment, war and other purposes. This ensures that AI will play an even more active role in the development of foreign and national policy in the future.
However, we know that AI systems can provide misleading and inaccurate information that may have deep national security implications. In addition, unattended and appropriate protections, AI technologies increase a range of safety and human rights risks that could undertake, not in advance, to democracy and national security . The spectrum of AI working towards authoritarian ends is looming.
Without supervision and appropriate protections, AI technologies increase a range of safety and human rights risks that could erode, and not to advance, democracy and national security.
Throughout 2024, the intersection of AI, national security and geopolitics has become more and more complex. There has been progress in the establishment of guarantees to help guarantee that AI systems used for national security purposes support democratic values and include security and rights considerations. However, we are entering what could be a period of deep geopolitical instability, fueled by precipitated decision -making. In such a context, there is a real risk that the rules and the regulations governing AI, which aim to ensure the safety and protection of rights, will be swept.
In response to the dynamics described above, the Technology in the public interest The program supports a growing cohort of organizations working at the AI nexus, national security and geopolitics. Here is what we heard the need for a variety of experts from a range of domains:
- Advance a larger market of ideas to guide the development of policies and practice which constitute considerations of public interest.
- Expand the opening of what constitutes expertise in the field.
- Build stronger civil society networks which are guided by values of democratic interest and the public.
- Work on a global scale and include the expertise of countries with a global majority.
- Examine the deepening of relations between technological industry and governments.
- Establish a lexicon shared between and between stakeholders who centers humanity.
Even during a period of great uncertainty, it is possible to progress in the areas described above. Through the Foreign Relations Council And University of Cambridge We support efforts to advance new approaches to AI governance and foreign policy which center democratic and public interest considerations. To agree New America And Kaiji aims to assess and reinvent American and Chinese relations in a way that goes beyond the accounts of competition and the “armament of armaments”. Support for Brennan center seeks to advance monitoring, transparency and responsibility for the way in which AI technologies are used and deployed in a national national security context and highlights the influence of the AI industry within of the American government. Beneficiary partner Technology press Produces knowledge and analyzes on technology geopolitics, with a particular accent on AI.
Our work will continue to build in this area, and we will seek to link these efforts to broader collaborations to advance the global governance of AI to the public interest. As always, we invite Your ideas and comments on our work.