Looking ahead to the AI Seoul Summit

How summits in Seoul, France and past can provoke worldwide cooperation on frontier AI security

Final yr, the UK Authorities hosted the primary main international Summit on frontier AI security at Bletchley Park. It centered the world’s consideration on speedy progress on the frontier of AI growth and delivered concrete worldwide motion to reply to potential future dangers, together with the Bletchley Declaration; new AI Security Institutes; and the International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety.

Six months on from Bletchley, the worldwide neighborhood has a chance to construct on that momentum and provoke additional international cooperation at this week’s AI Seoul Summit. We share under some ideas on how the summit – and future ones – can drive progress in the direction of a standard, international strategy to frontier AI security.

AI capabilities have continued to advance at a speedy tempo

Since Bletchley, there was sturdy innovation and progress throughout the complete discipline, together with from Google DeepMind. AI continues to drive breakthroughs in vital scientific domains, with our new AlphaFold 3 mannequin predicting the construction and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy. This work will assist rework our understanding of the organic world and speed up drug discovery. On the similar time, our Gemini family of models have already made merchandise utilized by billions of individuals all over the world extra helpful and accessible. We have additionally been working to enhance how our fashions understand, cause and work together and lately shared our progress in constructing the way forward for AI assistants with Project Astra.

This progress on AI capabilities guarantees to enhance many individuals’s lives, but in addition raises novel questions that should be tackled collaboratively in plenty of key security domains. Google DeepMind is working to establish and tackle these challenges by way of pioneering security analysis. Up to now few months alone, we’ve shared our evolving approach to creating a holistic set of security and duty evaluations for our superior fashions, together with early research evaluating vital capabilities equivalent to deception, cyber-security, self-proliferation, and self-reasoning. We additionally launched an in-depth exploration into aligning future advanced AI assistants with human values and pursuits. Past LLMs, we lately shared our strategy to biosecurity for AlphaFold 3.

This work is pushed by our conviction that we have to innovate on security and governance as quick as we innovate on capabilities – and that each issues should be executed in tandem, repeatedly informing and strengthening one another.

Constructing worldwide consensus on frontier AI dangers

Maximizing the advantages from superior AI methods requires constructing worldwide consensus on vital frontier questions of safety, together with anticipating and making ready for brand new dangers past these posed by current day fashions. Nevertheless, given the excessive diploma of uncertainty about these potential future dangers, there may be clear demand from policymakers for an unbiased, scientifically-grounded view.

That’s why the launch of the brand new interim International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI is a vital element of the AI Seoul Summit – and we sit up for submitting proof from our analysis later this yr. Over time, this kind of effort might change into a central enter to the summit course of and, if profitable, we imagine it must be given a extra everlasting standing, loosely modeled on the perform of the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change. This could be a significant contribution to the proof base that policymakers all over the world want to tell worldwide motion.

We imagine these AI summits can present a daily discussion board devoted to constructing worldwide consensus and a standard, coordinated strategy to governance. Holding a singular give attention to frontier security may even guarantee these convenings are complementary and never duplicative of different worldwide governance efforts.

Establishing finest practices in evaluations and a coherent governance framework

Evaluations are a vital element wanted to tell AI governance selections. They allow us to measure the capabilities, conduct and influence of an AI system, and are an vital enter for threat assessments and designing acceptable mitigations. Nevertheless, the science of frontier AI security evaluations remains to be early in its growth.

For this reason the Frontier Model Forum (FMF), which Google launched with different main AI labs, is participating with AI Security Institutes within the US and UK and different stakeholders on finest practices for evaluating frontier fashions. The AI summits might assist scale this work internationally and assist keep away from a patchwork of nationwide testing and governance regimes which are duplicative or in battle with each other. It’s vital that we keep away from fragmentation that might inadvertently hurt security or innovation.

The US and UK AI Security Institutes have already agreed to construct a standard strategy to security testing, an vital first step towards higher coordination. We predict there is a chance over time to construct on this in the direction of a standard, international strategy. An preliminary precedence from the Seoul Summit might be to agree a roadmap for a variety of actors to collaborate on creating and standardizing frontier AI analysis benchmarks and approaches.

It’ll even be vital to develop shared frameworks for threat administration. To contribute to those discussions, we lately launched the primary model of our Frontier Safety Framework, a set of protocols for proactively figuring out future AI capabilities that might trigger extreme hurt and setting up mechanisms to detect and mitigate them. We count on the Framework to evolve considerably as we be taught from its implementation, deepen our understanding of AI dangers and evaluations, and collaborate with business, academia and authorities. Over time, we hope that sharing our approaches will facilitate work with others to agree on requirements and finest practices for evaluating the protection of future generations of AI fashions.

In the direction of a world strategy for frontier AI security

Lots of the potential dangers that might come up from progress on the frontier of AI are international in nature. As we head into the AI Seoul Summit, and sit up for future summits in France and past, we’re excited for the chance to advance international cooperation on frontier AI security. It’s our hope that these summits will present a devoted discussion board for progress in the direction of a standard, international strategy. Getting this proper is a vital step in the direction of unlocking the great advantages of AI for society.