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UK Government: Historic First as Companies Agree Safety Commitments on AI
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This is a landmark government announcement marking a significant step in international AI governance; useful for understanding the evolution of voluntary industry safety commitments and multilateral AI policy coordination following the 2023 Bletchley Summit.
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On May 21, 2024, the UK and Republic of Korea secured safety commitments from 16 global AI companies at the Seoul AI Summit, representing the first multilateral agreement of its kind. Signatories committed to publishing safety frameworks, defining thresholds for 'intolerable' risks, and halting development or deployment of frontier models if risks cannot be adequately mitigated. The agreement expands on Bletchley Declaration signatories to include companies from the US, China, and the UAE.
Key Points
- •16 AI companies from North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East signed the Frontier AI Safety Commitments at the Seoul AI Summit.
- •Companies must publish safety frameworks that measure and evaluate risks from frontier AI models before and during deployment.
- •Signatories must define explicit thresholds for 'intolerable' risks and commit not to develop or deploy models exceeding those thresholds.
- •The agreement builds on the 2023 Bletchley Declaration with an expanded international scope, notably including companies from China and the UAE.
- •Represents the first world-first voluntary multilateral commitment on frontier AI safety from major industry players.
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# Historic first as companies spanning North America, Asia, Europe and Middle East agree safety commitments on development of AI
New commitments to develop AI safely have been agreed with 16 AI tech companies spanning the globe.
From:[Department for Science, Innovation and Technology](https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-science-innovation-and-technology), [The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/michelle-donelan) and [The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP](https://www.gov.uk/government/people/rishi-sunak)Published21 May 2024
This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Global AI companies agree safety commitments.
- The UK and Republic of Korea have secured commitment from 16 global AI tech companies to a set of safety outcomes, building on Bletchley agreements with expanded list of signatories.
- in the extreme, leading AI tech companies including from China and the UAE have committed to not develop or deploy AI models if the risks cannot be sufficiently mitigated
- agreement also commits companies to ensuring accountable governance structures and public transparency on their approaches to frontier AI safety
New commitments to develop AI safely have been agreed with 16 AI tech companies spanning the globe, including companies from the US, China and the Middle East, marking a world-first on the opening day of the AI Seoul Summit (Tuesday 21 May).
As two days of talks get underway, Zhipu.ai (China) and the Technology Innovation Institute (UAE) are among companies that have signed up to the fresh ‘Frontier AI Safety Commitments’:
- Amazon
- Anthropic
- Cohere
- Google / Google DeepMind
- G42
- IBM
- Inflection AI
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Mistral AI
- Naver
- OpenAI
- Samsung Electronics
- Technology Innovation Institute
- xAI
- Zhipu.ai
Where they have not done so already, AI tech companies will each publish safety frameworks on how they will measure risks of their frontier AI models, such as examining the risk of
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