Hiroshima AI Process (HAP) to take AI governance globa

Source: The post is based on the article “Hiroshima AI Process (HAP) to take AI governance global” published in The Hindu on 14th June 2023

What is the News?

The annual Group of Seven(G-7) Summit hosted by Japan took place in Hiroshima. The countries initiated the Hiroshima AI Process(HAP).

What is the Hiroshima AI Process(HAP)?

Hiroshima AI Process(HAP) is an effort by G7 to determine a way forward to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI).

It recognizes the need to immediately take stock of the opportunities and challenges of generative AI, which is increasingly prominent across countries and sectors.

HAP will also work in cooperation with the OECD and Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and will discuss generative AI by the end of this year.

These discussions could include topics such as governance, safeguarding of intellectual property rights including copyrights, promotion of transparency, response to foreign information manipulation, including disinformation and responsible utilization of these technologies.

What are the likely outcomes of HAP?

HAP isn’t expected to address AI regulation from a state-centric perspective. Instead, it exists to account for the importance of involving multiple stakeholders in various processes and to ensure the latter is fair and transparent.

However, the task before the HAP is really challenging considering there are three ways in which the HAP can move forward:

– Firstly, it can enable the G-7 countries to move towards a divergent regulation based on shared norms, principles and guiding values;

– Secondly, it can become overwhelmed by the divergent views among the G-7 countries and fail to deliver any meaningful solution;

– Thirdly, it can deliver a mixed outcome with some convergence on certain issues and at the same time a lack of common ground on many others.