Maxwell Zeff, Drew Hinshaw, and Joe Parkinson writing in the WSJ:
Norway’s prime minister thumbed out a text message to an increasingly familiar contact on his phone—a fellow head of government he hoped would join a nascent plan of Western leaders to design a new framework to regulate artificial intelligence.
Jonas Gahr Støre said that within 10 minutes, Canada’s Mark Carney had texted back: “Of course. We’re in.”
Around the same time, Carney was discussing AI regulation with French President Emmanuel Macron on the French Atlantic archipelago of St. Pierre and Miquelon just off Newfoundland, as Macron’s government called on the United Nations Security Council to focus on AI and security ahead of this week’s General Assembly. By Monday, Støre and Finnish President Alexander Stubb had published a two-page paper arguing that AI “must remain under human direction, oversight and control” and suggested creating a global supervisory regime.
A club of Western presidents and prime ministers is leading a new push for global controls on AI, echoing the nuclear arms treaties that took root during the first decades of the Atomic Era.
Politico: 22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’