Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
WiredDEC 2024
AI Action Summit Draft Declaration Leaked
Above: People take part in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit, at the Grand Palais, in Paris, on Feb. 10, 2025. Image copyright: JOEL SAGET/Contributor/AFP via Getty Images
The Spin
Narrative A
The AI Action Summit aims to harness AI for positive change by fostering global collaboration to ensure innovation serves the public good, respects human rights, and mitigates the risks of misuse. Rather than worrying about far-fetched existential fears of superintelligence, the Summit rightly focuses on achieving consensus on issues such as AI's impact on the environment, ensuring inclusivity, and countering challenges to information integrity.
Narrative B
The AI Action Summit's draft declaration offers no real action to address the global security risks posed by superintelligence. While full of pleasantries like "sustainability" and "diversity," the text fails to tackle the very real threats posed by advanced AI. By ignoring key issues discussed at previous summits, it represents a missed opportunity for world leaders to address the dangers of AI, leaving us vulnerable to the existential risks that experts have warned about for years.