World is ill-prepared for breakthroughs in AI, say experts

The intervention comes as politicians, experts and tech executives prepare to meet at a two-day summit in Seoul on Tuesday.

It also calls for increased funding for newly established bodies such as the UK and US AI safety institutes; forcing tech firms to carry out more rigorous risk-checking; and restricting the use of autonomous AI systems in key societal roles.

Other co-authors of the proposals include the bestselling author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, the late Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel laureate in economics, Sheila McIlraith, a professor in AI at the University of Toronto, and Dawn Song, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. The paper published on Monday is a peer-reviewed update of initial proposals produced before the Bletchley meeting.