World leaders discuss the future of AI

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 3 - The "landmark" order directs federal agencies to set new safety standards for AI systems. It also requires developers to share their safety test results and other critical information with the US government, according to a White House statement.
    UK: Bletchley Park meeting - „beginnings" or „missed opportunities"? On Wednesday, countries including the United Kingdom, United States and China agreed the "need for international action" as political and tech leaders gathered for the world's first summit on artificial intelligence (AI) safety. UK technology minister Michelle Donelan said the declaration "really outlines for the first time the world coming together to identify this problem".
    The objective of the two-day meeting held at historic Bletchley Park, north of London, where the Nazi-Germany Enigma code was cracked during World War 2, was to find "an international consensus" on the challenges presented by AI and how to address them and, for follow-up, it will propose the creation of a global panel of experts to make periodic reports.
    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended the invitation to China - a country that some accuse of technological espionage - "because a serious strategy cannot be developed if the global potential" of the sector is not involved.
    After the recent trilateral agreement between Italy, Germany and France the Bletchey Park meeting marked "the beginning of a process of involvement of other continents to achieve what we hope for: a new global alliance, as for the climate, on the rules and protections to be adopted in response to the challenge of artificial intelligence", Urso noted.
    However, more than 100 UK and international organisations, experts and campaigners published an open letter Monday to Sunak, branding the summit a "missed opportunity" and too tailored towards "big tech". The coalition - which includes unions, rights groups like Amnesty International and tech community voices - warned "communities and workers most affected by AI have been marginalised", with the invites "selective and limited".
    AI beyond the European Union In Europe, countries that are not directly involved in regulatory matters such as the EU's AI Act, or in the G7 meeting, are nevertheless taking their own steps to tackle AI.
    In North Macedonia, for example, at the initiative of the Fund for Innovation and Technology Development (FITD), a working group was formed in September 2021 to create the first National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. The country will also host the 6th Regional E-commerce Conference in Skopje on November 14, with a focus on the use of AI's potential. Representatives of companies such as Nestlé, Meta, Zalando, Allegro and Reebok, among others, will address the conference. The event is expected to bring together more than 600 entrepreneurs, e-traders, company directors and government representatives from North Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.
    Meanwhile, Albania aims to become part of the European Union's Digital Europe program, which will be implemented until 2027.
    The Albanian government has already approved the draft law ratifying the agreement between the Republic of Albania and the European Union for participation in the Union's program "Digital Europe", which is currently receiving the approval of the committees of the Albanian parliament.
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