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Rebecca Finlay says companies tell the Partnership on AI they feel alone as they try to separate the risks and benefits of deploying generative AI.
“one of the things that I hear from companies right now is they feel alone as they're trying to disentangle the risks of deploying these technologies”
Partnership on AI was formed in 2016 to bring diverse perspectives together on the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence.
“The Partnership on AI was formed in 2016 with the belief that we needed to bring diverse perspectives together”
The first investment in Partnership on AI came from six large technology companies.
“The very first investment that was made into the Partnership on AI was by the six large technology companies.”
The six founding corporate backers were Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook (now Meta), Google DeepMind and IBM.
“So that's Amazon and Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, now Meta, Google DeepMind and IBM.”
The Alan Turing Institute in the UK is among the research institutes that joined Partnership on AI.
“organizations like the Alan Turing Institute in the UK and beyond.”
When Partnership on AI began, deep learning was being deployed in internet search, mapping and recommendation engines, raising ethical questions.
“deep learning, pre generative AI, that wave of AI was really starting to be deployed in internet search mechanisms, in mapping mechanisms and recommendation engines.”
C2PA is a technical standard for tracking the authenticity of a piece of media across its life cycle.
“standards like C2PA that are thinking about how you clearly track the authenticity of a piece of media through the cycle.”
Eighteen organizations had signed up to Partnership on AI's framework for responsible development of synthetic media.
“now have eighteen organizations signed up and evolving with us is the framework for responsible development of synthetic media.”
The synthetic media framework sets out responsibilities for creators, developers and deployers, including platforms, to disclose AI-generated media.
“What are the responsibilities of creators, developers, deployers, that's platforms and otherwise, when it comes to thinking about how to disclose appropriately”
Partnership on AI issued shared prosperity guidelines on deploying AI in ways that benefit workers.
“We issued a set of guidelines, we call them the shared prosperity guidelines, which really were trying to get very specific.”
The shared prosperity guidelines were based on interviews and research with workers about when workplace AI helped them.
“They were based on a series of interviews and some research that we've done with workers themselves”
Finlay says workers find AI unhelpful when it pushes them toward rote or repetitive tasks or surveils them.
“When it's not working for them, of course, is when they feel as if they're being driven to rote tasks or repetitive tasks, or being surveilled in some way through the system.”
Partnership on AI worked with researchers years earlier to develop an AI incident reporting mechanism.
“We were really happy a number of years ago to work with some researchers to develop an incident reporting mechanism, which is now thriving.”
Finlay says incident reporting is appearing in emerging frameworks for foundation and frontier models, including work from the G7 and the OECD.
“whether it's the G7 work or work coming out of the OECD or elsewhere. This question of incident reporting is becoming very, very clear.”
Finlay says there was a debate the previous year over whether open or closed AI models were safer, which the executive order addressed.
“there was a debate last year between open models and open source models and closed models and which were safer.”
Partnership on AI produced guidance covering 22 points from pre-deployment research and development to post-deployment monitoring for disclosing and managing risks.
“What does it mean at twenty two pa- twenty two places along the development and deployment ecosystem to be consciously disclosing and attending to risks”
The UN Secretary-General's high-level advisory body on AI released a report around the September UN General Assembly.
“We had the high level advisory body to the Secretary General at the UN release their report”
Finlay named the Merlin bird app, which identifies birds from photos or recordings of birdsong, as her favorite use of AI.
“my favorite use of AI right now is my bird app. I don't know if you've used the Merlin bird app”