The first global AI Safety Summit was held
in 2023 with a declaration calling for
international cooperation.
Promotion of the wellbeing of the people and communities that these technologies affect requires
consideration of the social and ethical implications at all stages of AI system design, development and
implementation, and collaboration between job roles such as data scientists, product managers, data
engineers, domain experts, and delivery managers.[300]
The UK AI Safety Institute released in 2024 a testing toolset called 'Inspect' for AI safety evaluations
available under a MIT open-source licence which is freely available on GitHub and can be improved with
third-party packages. It can be used to evaluate AI models in a range of areas including core knowledge,
ability to reason, and autonomous capabilities.[301]
The regulation of artificial intelligence is the development
of public sector policies and laws for promoting and
regulating AI; it is therefore related to the broader regulation
of algorithms.[302] The regulatory and policy landscape for
AI is an emerging issue in jurisdictions globally.[303]
According to AI Index at Stanford, the annual number of
AI-related laws passed in the 127 survey countries jumped
from one passed in 2016 to 37 passed in 2022
alone.[304][305] Between 2016 and 2020, more than 30
countries adopted dedicated strategies for AI.[306] Most EU
member states had released national AI strategies, as had
Canada, China, India, Japan, Mauritius, the Russian
Federation, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, U.S., and
Vietnam. Others were in the process of elaborating their own AI strategy, including Bangladesh, Malaysia
and Tunisia.[306] The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence was launched in June 2020, stating a
need for AI to be developed in accordance with human rights and democratic values, to ensure public
confidence and trust in the technology.[306] Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
published a joint statement in November 2021 calling for a government commission to regulate AI.[307]
In 2023, OpenAI leaders published recommendations for the governance of superintelligence, which they
believe may happen in less than 10 years.[308] In 2023, the United Nations also launched an advisory
body to provide recommendations on AI governance; the body comprises technology company
executives, governments officials and academics.[309] In 2024, the Council of Europe created the first
international legally binding treaty on AI, called the "Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence
and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law". It was adopted by the European Union, the United
States, the United Kingdom, and other signatories.[310]
In a 2022 Ipsos survey, attitudes towards AI varied greatly by country; 78% of Chinese citizens, but only
35% of Americans, agreed that "products and services using AI have more benefits than drawbacks".[304]
A 2023 Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 61% of Americans agree, and 22% disagree, that AI poses risks to
humanity.[311] In a 2023 Fox News poll, 35% of Americans thought it "very important", and an additional
41% thought it "somewhat important", for the federal government to regulate AI, versus 13% responding
"not very important" and 8% responding "not at all important".[312][313]
Regulation