According to the Financial Times, the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom are all expected to sign the European Commission's AI Standards Agreement on Thursday (September 5), the first legally binding international convention on artificial intelligence. It is reported that the convention was jointly drafted by more than 50 countries including Canada, Israel, Japan and Australia over a period of two years. 

The convention requires signatories to be responsible for any harmful and discriminatory results produced by AI systems, and also requires the output of such systems to respect the rights of equality and privacy, while giving victims of AI-related infringements legal recourse. The convention was issued at a time when governments are developing a series of new regulations, commitments and agreements to oversee the rapidly developing artificial intelligence software. "For innovations as fast-growing as AI, it is really important that we take this first step globally. This is the first agreement that has real impact on a global scale, and it also brings together a range of very different countries," said Peter Kyle, the British Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. He added: "We hope that a lot of different countries will sign this convention, which shows that we as a global society are rising to the challenges posed by AI." The report pointed out that although the convention is "legally enforceable", some people have objected to this - there are no sanctions such as fines. The reason is that the Convention mainly measures the compliance of various units with it through monitoring, which is a "relatively weak" form of enforcement. Europe is already at the forefront of the world in terms of AI legislation. Previously, the EU's first global regulation to comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence, the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), officially came into effect on August 1 this year. Some analysts pointed out that the implementation of this bill may increase the compliance costs of AI-related companies. The formulation of the newly signed International Convention on Artificial Intelligence was first announced by the European Union in August 2022. It is reported that the Convention is based on coordinating the relationship between the development of artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy and the rule of law, and strives to establish a potential legal framework to ensure that the design, deployment and use of artificial intelligence will comply with the European Commission's standards on human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

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