What Will Happen Now?
The summit has several hours to go and there can sometimes be signatures added after an event has closed. However, the decision not to sign by two major powers has already been met with dismay.
Dario Amodei, head of AI wunderkind, Anthropic, told Agence France Presse, that the summit had been a “missed opportunity.”
Anthropic, which has huge financial backing from Amazon, has been open in its support of AI safety measures, including a bill which the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, blocked as too sweeping.
Amodei urged that the next international summit be more ambitious and should look to ensure democratic nations control AI, that it should prepare for the potential safety threats that the technology could pose, and that delegates also need to pre-empt its social and economic disruption, according to Barrons.
However, there is no doubt that the agreement lacks some clout, with both the UK and US refusing to sign. The tech giants pushing AI development seem to have the president’s ear and are telling him that legislation will hurt innovation.
