Addressing AI challenges and guiding technology towards goodness
2024-10-28
On October 25-27, a brainstorming session from top global experts gathered in Lingang, Shanghai. From addressing current global challenges to future artificial intelligence governance, from the forefront of life sciences to the boundaries of physical sciences, nearly 300 of the world's top scientists, including 11 Nobel laureates, gathered at the 2024 World Top Scientists Forum. They have interpreted the dream of using technology to shape a sustainable future and enhance the common well-being of humanity from different professions. Science or technology itself is neutral, but technology sometimes brings unexpected threats and challenges, including global climate change, regional conflicts, and other world problems David Gross, the 2004 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the World's Top Scientists Forum, "This requires global scientists to collaborate to address the constantly changing challenges of the world, guide science towards goodness, and young scientists need to step forward and take the lead." At this year's World's Top Scientists Forum, AI related issues played an important role. When AI becomes the new productivity, are we prepared to deal with the "double-edged sword" effect brought by AI? At the World's Top Scientists Intelligent Science Conference, top experts and industry professionals jointly discuss how to build a global AI regulatory system. Over the past few decades or even centuries, scientific research has been facing some challenges. Nowadays, with the development of AI, scientific research will usher in a series of new breakthroughs E Weinan, an academician of the CAS Member, dean of the Institute of Intelligence of Peking University, and director of the International Machine Learning Research Center of Peking University, said that AI has become an indispensable tool in many scientific research. For example, the AlphaFold series models have the ability to predict protein single chains, complexes, and complex biomolecule structures, solving fundamental problems that have plagued biological science for many years. Artificial intelligence does not pose a threat from its inception, but rather an opportunity accompanied by a threat Facing the ethical risks and security challenges behind AI, Gong Ke, Executive Director of the China New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategy Research Institute, stated at the forum that there are now hundreds of governance frameworks or declarations issued by governments, international organizations, or well-known international conferences, but they are "fragmented" and there are significant problems in coordination and implementation. He believes that accelerating the establishment of a global AI governance framework is an urgent task. Christopher Pissarides, the 2010 Nobel laureate in economics and professor at the London School of Economics, is particularly concerned about the impact of AI on future human work. He believes that the era of widespread application of AI may be coming soon, but the current application of AI is still very limited. According to its theoretical research and social surveys, the majority of AI applications nowadays are relatively simple, with the main applications being image recognition and monitoring. AI technology has the potential to create new human-machine competition and reduce employee well-being. He called for "technology to continuously improve employee well-being while increasing productivity." As the winner of the 2024 Association of the World's Top Scientists Award for "Intelligent Science or Mathematics," Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University in the United States, said, "Computer scientists not only need to 'ensure that the algorithms we build and the designs we choose benefit humanity,' but also need to work closely with experts in fields such as economics, sociology, behavioral science, law, and policy research, hoping that we can do our best and creatively solve these problems
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Source:Science and Technology Daily
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