"Artificial Intelligence powers come together in the UK, but global consensus is still a mirage" (with Luís Neto Galvão)

"Having a forum that brings together political leaders, scientists and representatives of the big technology companies for two days is positive, but I have many doubts that this event will turn the UK into a platform for connecting the various countries and regions of the world in the area of Artificial Intelligence," comments Luís Neto Galvão, a lawyer at SRS Legal, whose CV includes various works in the area of privacy and technologies with the European Commission and the Council of Europe.
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"The United Nations (UN) could even be in a position to do a good job in this area, but at the moment it's likely that the secretary-general (of the UN, led by António Guterres) has other priorities and maintains a limited role in AI at the moment," adds Neto Galvão.
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"What really seems important at the moment is to guarantee dialogue between the West and China. Most Asian countries are more or less aligned with the West, but China has facial recognition on a large scale and this is very different from what can be done in Europe, which only allows facial recognition in very specific cases such as an urgent case of combating terrorism or the identification of missing children," exemplifies Luís Neto Galvão.
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"What really seems important at the moment is to guarantee dialogue between the West and China. Most Asian countries are more or less aligned with the West, but China has facial recognition on a large scale," recalls Luís Neto Galvão.
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"The Biden administration has been in dialogue with the big tech companies and they want all this to be regulated, because they need predictability to know what they can and can't do when they develop AI products," describes Luís Neto Galvão.
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All of this will have to be talked about at Bletchley, possibly with the hope that all those involved will have put away their Halloween costumes for this Tuesday evening. Luís Neto Galvão guarantees that "the EU doesn't need the UK to communicate with the US, because that link already exists".
"I don't know what effects this summit will have. We won't know until we hear the final statements," concludes the lawyer."