According to a report by the “Financial Times”
The United States, Britain and the European Union are expected to sign the first legally binding international treaty on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)reveals a publication of Financial Times due to increasing pressure to regulate the rapidly developing technology.
The three are going to sign today Council of Europe Convention on Artificial Intelligenceaccording to the British media, which adds that the contract was drawn up for period of more than two years from more than 50 countriesincluding Canada, Israel, Japan and Australia.
The US is “committed to ensuring that AI technologies support respect for human rights and democratic values” and sees “the significant added value of the Council of Europe in this area,” a senior Biden administration official told the paper.
“It is the first (agreement) that is truly globally binding and also brings together a very diverse group of countries,” UK technology minister Peter Kyle was quoted as saying.
The Council of Europe’s framework treaty on Artificial Intelligence, with which they are addressed issues of human rights, democracy and the rule of lawcompiled by the Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI).
CAI finalized the draft contract in March. The convention was subsequently adopted on 17 May by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe and is due to open for signature today, 5 September, in Vilnius.
