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UK government urged to adopt more positive outlook for LLMs to avoid missing ‘AI goldrush’
The U.K. government is taking too "narrow" a view of AI safety and risks falling behind in the AI goldrush, according to a new report.
The report, published by the parliamentary House of Lords’ Communications and Digital Committee, follows a months-long evidence-gathering effort involving input from a wide gamut of stakeholders including big tech companies, academia, venture capitalists, media, and government. “The rapid development of AI large language models is likely to have a profound effect on society, comparable to the introduction of the internet — that makes it vital for the Government to get its approach right and not miss out on opportunities, particularly not if this is out of caution for far-off and improbable risks,” the Communications and Digital Committee’s chairman Baroness Stowell said in a statement. “The National Cyber Security Centre assesses that large language models will ‘almost certainly be used to generate fabricated content; that hyper‐realistic bots will make the spread of disinformation easier; and that deepfake campaigns are likely to become more advanced in the run up to the next nationwide vote, scheduled to take place by January 2025’,” it said.
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