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12 February 2025 / Essay
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Copy LinkIn November 2023, the UK prime minister convened global leaders at an AI Safety Summit to debate and align on agreed standards for AI progress.
This week, the French president hosted another global summit with the same intent.
Sixty countries, including France, India, and China, signed a statement that set out the ambition to ensure AI’s technological development continues to be safe, secure, trustworthy, and transparent.
Two of the attending countries did not sign the statement: the US and the UK.
The statement also touched on the energy consumption of AI platforms and noted an ambition to “make AI sustainable for people and the planet.”
The US vice president made his view clear to those attending the summit that too much regulation of AI would “kill the transformative industry” and that policies that drive growth should be prioritized over those that promote safety.
The UK appeared to cede its role as champion of AI safety and align with the imperative of enabling invention, experimentation, and application.
A subtle balance must be struck between regulation and innovation; this global premise applies equally to AI development in industries and individual companies. How do you capture the economic, social, human, and environmental benefits of AI innovation whil
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