News Summary

• The United States will release a joint statement with 15 other countries.
• The statement embraces the potential of artificial intelligence.
• The announcement is expected in Kyoto, Japan, at this year’s Science and Technology in Society Forum.
• Tech ministers from Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates were among the representatives from other countries that endorsed the statement.
• It also says the participating countries welcome the “growing field of metascience,” a term that describes the study of the scientific process itself.