SAIFCA Director Takes AI Safety Concerns to Parliament
On Monday, The Safe AI for Children Alliance (SAIFCA) Director Tara Steele spoke in UK Parliament during Evidence Week.
The event, hosted by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Sense about Science, offered a crucial opportunity to highlight AI safety concerns.
In discussions with Chi Onwurah MP, Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee, Tara asked whether policymakers had considered the influential Science paper 'Managing Extreme AI Risks Amid Rapid Progress' – a key consensus document from multiple AI pioneers including Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Stuart Russell.
The paper draws important connections between today's AI challenges affecting children, like algorithmic discrimination and online misinformation, and broader AI safety concerns. The solutions we develop to protect children now could help build safer AI systems for everyone's future.
Chi Onwurah's engagement and commitment to AI safety was encouraging. While the discussion touched on the Government's response to the Select Committee's report on AI Governance, SAIFCA emphasises that as AI technologies race ahead, we need stronger safeguards – both to protect children today and to ensure AI systems remain under meaningful human oversight as they become more advanced.
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