"Microsoft is proud to be a signatory of the Rome Call for AI Ethics, which is an important step in promoting a thoughtful, respectful, and inclusive conversation on the intersection of digital technology and humanity. The Call’s text is also characterized by being a first attempt to formulate a set of ethical criteria with common reference points and values, offering a contribution to the development of a common language to interpret what is human ". If the Academy feels called to intensify its efforts to facilitate the knowledge and signature of other international actors, none the less the Call is a first step which is a prelude to others. Joining this initiative implies for the industries that sign it an engagement that also has a relevance in terms of costs and industrial contribution to developing and distributing their products. From this point of view, we can say that the first signing of this call is not a culmination, but a starting point for a commitment that appears even more urgent and important than ever before. Paglia said: "The Call’s intention is to create a movement that will widen and involve other players: public institutions, NGOs, industries and groups to set a course for developing and using technologies derived from AI.
Paglia has read the speech prepared by Pope Francis. David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament.ĭuring the morning Abp. John Kelly III, Executive Vice President of IBM, Mr. Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life (sponsor of the initiative) Mr. These principles are fundamental elements of good innovation».įirst signatories: Msgr.
«The sponsors of the call express their desire to work together, in this context and at a national and international level, to promote “algor-ethics”, namely the ethical use of AI as defined by the following principles: 1) Transparency: in principle, AI systems must be explainable 2) Inclusion: the needs of all human beings must be taken into consideration so that everyone can benefit and all individuals can be offered the best possible conditions to express themselves and develop 3) Responsibility: those who design and deploy the use of AI must proceed with responsibility and transparency 4) Impartiality: do not create or act according to bias, thus safeguarding fairness and human dignity 5) Reliability: AI systems must be able to work reliably 6) Security and privacy: AI systems must work securely and respect the privacy of users. Pontifical Academy for Life, Microsoft, IBM, FAO, the Italia Government, today signed as first the “Call for an AI Ethics”, a document developed to support an ethical approach to Artificial Intelligence and promote a sense of responsibility among organizations, governments and institutions with the aim to create a future in which digital innovation and technological progress serve human genius and creativity and not their gradual replacement. Large-scale pre-trained models are one of today’s best shortcuts to artificial general intelligence.”Īrtificial general intelligence, which refers to the hypothetical ability of a machine to learn any task in the way that a human can, is the end goal of training these large AI language models and with the release of WuDao 2.0, it appears we're one step closer to achieving it.#RomeCallforAIethics Rome, February 28th. “These sophisticated models, trained on gigantic data sets, only require a small amount of new data when used for a specific feature because they can transfer knowledge already learned into new tasks, just like human beings. So far it has 22 partners including Xiaomi, Meituan and Kuaishou in China.Ĭhinese AI researcher Blake Yan provided further insight to the South China Morning Post on how these large AI language models can use the knowledge they already have to learn new tasks, saying: WuDao 2.0 is able to understand both Chinese and English as the new AI model was trained by studying 1.2TB of text in each language and 4.9TB of images and text overall.