Can Humanity Survive the Age of Artificial Intelligence? The Battle for AI Governance in the Indo Pacific
With the unveiling of ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, the world moved closer toward general artificial intelligence (AI). This development took the world by storm and triggered a huge policy and security debate. In May 2023, leading AI scientists and AI business leaders issued a high-profile statement calling for urgent global cooperation to mitigate “the risk of extinction” from AI. Can humans ensure that something that is more intelligent than us keeps working for us, as Geoffrey Hinton (the so-called father of AI) puts it? Can the global community come together to cooperate over AI policy in the age of great power competition?
In this talk, Professor Yves Tiberghien outlines the AI policy dilemmas at the national and global levels and compares the directions taken by Japan’s 2022 AI Regulations, the EU AI Act (June 2023), the Chinese Interim AI guidelines (August 2023), the US Executive order on AI (October 2023), the G7 Statement on the AI Hiroshima Process (October 2023), and others. It is argued that the global governance of AI is still vastly lagging the speed of development of the technology.
Date: 12/7 (Thur)
Time: 12:10 – 14:10 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 1, 13/F, South Wing, General Building
Speaker: Prof. Yves Tiberghien (Professor of Political Science, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Asian Research, and Co-Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada)
