Following the example of the European Union and the OECD, it is now the turn of the G20 countries to champion artificial intelligence focused on people. In their conclusions, which were approved on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June in Tsukuba (Japan), the Ministers of Digital Trade and Economy highlighted key principles that had achieved relative consensus, paving the way for international cooperation in this area.
Ministers from the G20 countries, as well as several invited ministers, including those from Estonia, the Netherlands, and Spain for the EU, championed a future society focused on people and advertised in Japan as “Society 5.0”.
With specific regard to artificial intelligence, they also advocated people-focused AI that encourages innovation and investment, with a particular emphasis on digital entrepreneurship, research and development. They highlighted the rise of start-ups in this sector and how AI has been adopted by small, medium-sized and micro-companies, which, they say, bear disproportionate costs in adopting AI. The annexes include the guidelines that were recently adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which were themselves based on the ones adopted by the EU (see EUROPE 12260/15). They also established a number of principles for “national policies and international cooperation for trustworthy AI”.
There is also a reference to 'smart cities', which must “take into account transparency, resilience, confidentiality, security, efficiency and interoperability”. This topic will be discussed at a forum on the subject of ‘Super City/Smart City' in Osaka on 29 June. [https://bit.ly/2R5NUWc ] (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)