The United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, is set to host the AI Safety Summit 2023 on 1st and 2nd November at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire. This summit brings together global leaders, AI experts and industry representatives to discuss the growing concerns surrounding the safety of advanced AI technologies and the need for international cooperation to address these concerns.
Bletchley Park, known for its historic role in British Enigma codebreaking during World War II, is chosen as the summit’s location. It is a place with a rich history in computer science development.
The UK Government has outlined five key objectives for the AI Safety Summit 2023:
The two-day summit has a packed agenda:
Day1:
Day2:
Prominent figures expected to attend include Vice-President Kamala Harris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Chinese Vice Minister of Science and Technology Wu Zhaohui is also expected to be present.
Experts like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who are considered “godfathers” of Modern AI, will attend. They have expressed concerns about the rapid development of AI and its potential risks.
The UK’s approach to regulating AI has been characterized by a pro-innovation strategy that relies on sector-specific regulators using existing laws to implement principles like safety, fairness and accountability. However, the AI Safety Summit could potentially influence the UK’s approach to regulation in several ways:
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