The question did not even arise a year ago. G7 leaders announced on Saturday the formation of a future "working group" on artificial intelligence (AI), to conduct discussions on the "responsible use" of these tools and the risks they present, including "disinformation".
"We instruct relevant ministers to establish the Hiroshima process on AI, through a working group built in cooperation with international organizations, with a view to discussions on generative AI by the end of the year," according to the G7 statement, which met from Friday to Sunday in the Japanese city.
Like ChatGPT, the best known of them today, generative AI software (capable of producing computer code, text, images, sound, video...) is expanding in the world, while causing deep concern in many sectors.
Countering "information manipulation" and "disinformation"
The discussions of the G7 working group on the subject could thus focus on the "governance, protection of intellectual property rights" and the "responsible use" of these new technologies, but also on the means to counter the "manipulation of information" and "disinformation" via these tools.
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"We commit to advancing multi-stakeholder approaches to developing standards for AI, within legally binding frameworks," added the G7 (US, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy and Canada).
"We recognize the importance of procedures that promote transparency, openness, fair processes, impartiality, privacy and inclusion in order to promote responsible AI," the leaders of this group of major industrialized democracies insisted.