Britain aims for global leadership role with AI safety summit
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Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence (AI) safety summit next month, aiming to carve out a role following Brexit as an arbiter between the United States, China, and the European Union in a key tech sector.
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18 Oct 2023
The Nov. 1-2 summit will focus heavily on the existential threat some lawmakers, including Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, fear AI poses. Sunak, who wants the UK to become a hub for AI safety, has warned the technology could be used by criminals and terrorists to create weapons of mass destruction.
The EU, in contrast, has so far prioritised the technology's implications for human rights and corporate transparency.
Sunak will host around 100 guests at Bletchley Park, the site in southern England where mathematician Alan Turing cracked Nazi Germany's Enigma code.
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis head a guest list that includes lawmakers, AI pioneers and academics.
The aim of the summit is to kick-start international dialogue on AI regulation, said Matt Clifford, a tech
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