The UK is fighting for more transparency with AI companies

AI companies, for the most part, have had free rein to do as they pleased during the first era of the AI explosion that began with ChatGPT. Now, as this craze nears its one-year anniversary, companies are facing intense pressure from several governments to regulate their technology. The UK is now fighting for AI companies to give it access to their technology.

It took several months, but governmental bodies are finally stepping in to help keep AI in check. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that generative AI could have some major impacts on several industries. The biggest problems with AI are evident now, and we’re all hoping that government regulation will help keep things in check.

The UK has requested that AI companies give it access to their technology

We’ve seen different governmental bodies try to keep AI technology from going too far. Now, it’s the UK’s turn. According to Financial Times, the UK is soon to hold the world’s first AI safety summit, and it invited major AI companies such as Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. During the summit, the UK aims to appeal to these companies so that they could provide them with deep access to the technology that powers their LLMs.

At the time, neither company had shared deep information about their technology with any entity. This makes sense, as we’re talking about deep dark trade secrets that any company would hold close to its chest. So, you can imagine the companies being hesitant.

However, the UK believes that having access to these companies’ AI will help gain a deeper understanding of the technology and be able to identify potential risks.

At this time, we don’t know exactly when the summit will happen, but we know that it will be sometime in November, and it will happen in Bletchley Park. Anthropic agreed to provide the UK with information, but we don’t know to what extent. We’ll need to wait for the summit to happen in order to know for sure.

What we do know is that sharing this information could have an impact on where AI takes us in the future.