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Blay Whitby published a book outlining the need for AI to be developed along ethical and socially responsible lines in 1988. This early work marked one of the first serious attempts to link artificial intelligence development with human values.
More than 100 thought leaders formulated principles for beneficial AI during the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI held in 2017. One key principle stated that teams developing AI systems should actively cooperate to avoid corner-cutting on safety standards.
To date, over 8000 people including Yann LeCun, Shane Legg, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell have signed an open letter calling for research on societal impacts. The letter was originally issued by dozens of artificial intelligence experts in 2015.
Szegedy et al discovered in 2013 that adding specific imperceptible perturbations to an image could cause it to be misclassified with high confidence. This issue continues with neural networks though recent work shows perturbations are generally large enough to be perceptible.
The British government held its first major global summit on AI safety which took place on the 1st and the 2nd of November 2023. During the summit the intention to create the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI was announced.
An international team of 96 experts chaired by Yoshua Bengio published the first International AI Safety Report commissioned by 30 nations and UN in 2025. The report followed a series of global resolutions and partnerships established between 2024 and 2025.