Can apparent bystanders distinctively shape an outcome? Global south countries and global catastrophic risk-focused governance of artificial intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04616v1
• Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 18:54:16 GMT
• Title: Can apparent bystanders distinctively shape an outcome? Global south countries and global catastrophic risk-focused governance of artificial intelligence
• Authors: Cecil Abungu, Michelle Malonza and Sumaya Nur Adan
• Abstract summary: We argue that global south countries like India and Singapore could be fairly consequential in the global catastrophic risk-focused governance of AI. We also suggest some ways through which global south countries can play a positive role in designing, strengthening and operationalizing global catastrophic risk-focused AI governance.
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• Abstract: Increasingly, there is well-grounded concern that through perpetual scaling-up of computation power and data, current deep learning techniques will create highly capable artificial intelligence that could pursue goals in a manner that is not aligned with human values. In turn, such AI could have the potential of leading to a scenario in which there is serious global-scale damage to human wellbeing. Against this backdrop, a number of researchers and public policy professionals have been developing ideas about how to govern AI in a manner that reduces the chances that it could lead to a global catastrophe. The jurisdictional focus of a vast majority of their assessments so far has been the United States, China, and Europe. That preference seems to reveal an assumption underlying most of the work in this field: That global south countries can only have a marginal role in attempts to govern AI development from a global catastrophic risk -focused perspective. Our paper sets out to undermine this assumption. We argue that global south countries like India and Singapore (and specific coalitions) could in fact be fairly consequential in the global catastrophic risk-focused governance of AI. We support our position using 4 key claims. 3 are constructed out of the current ways in which advanced foundational AI models are built and used while one is constructed on the strategic roles that global south countries and coalitions have historically played in the design and use of multilateral rules and institutions. As each claim is elaborated, we also suggest some ways through which global south countries can play a positive role in designing, strengthening and operationalizing global catastrophic risk-focused AI governance.

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