Comments on Seoul AI Summit published in The Guardian
The summit was criticised for leaving key voices out of the conversation. No Korean civil society groups were present, with the host country representing itself only through academia, government and industry, while only the largest AI businesses were invited to take part. Roeland Decorte, president of the AI Founders Association, warned that the discussions risked “focusing only on flashy large-scale models, of which only a handful will come to dominate and which can only be created currently by the biggest players at a financial loss” as a result.
“The question is, in the end, do we want to regulate and build for a future mature AI economy that will create a sustainable framework for the majority of companies operating in the space,” he added.
