The influence of technology in the world continues to grow, and therefore new questions arise that cause uncertainty. That’s why 29 countries (including powers like the US and China, as well as Brazil and Chile) signed the first global declaration on the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) at a summit on its rise.

The so-called Bletchley Declaration for the “safe” development of artificial intelligence is, according to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, “the start of a new global effort to increase public confidence in AI, ensuring that it is safe .” “.

Although this document does not indicate the intention of creating global legislation, it is the beginning of a path to follow while identifying little by little the opportunities and problems of implementing artificial intelligence in different areas of human life. Generative artificial intelligences – which can produce text, sounds or images in seconds – have evolved exponentially, and even more improvements are expected in the coming months. These bring great hopes for the fields of medicine and education, but they can also destabilize societies, enable the production of weapons or escape human control, according to experts and governments.

Recently, several “founding fathers” of this technology, such as Yoshua Bengio or Geoffrey Hinton, have advocated “the development and ratification of an international treaty on artificial intelligence” to reduce the “potentially catastrophic risks posed by advanced systems”. on humanity.”

In recent months, cases have already been presented that even affected the privacy of minors through the use of AI, so regulation of the scope is important so that this technology is not misused and continues to be a sea of ​​possibilities for humanity. This, knowing that the progress of artificial intelligence is unstoppable, but we must be responsible to avoid new problems for the world. (OR)