AI Safety Summit
2023 AI Safety Summit | |
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Host country | United Kingdom |
Date | 1-2 November 2023 |
Venue(s) | Bletchley Park Mansion, Bletchley Park Milton Keynes |
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The AI Safety Summit was an international conference discussing the safety and regulation of artificial intelligence. It was held at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, on 1–2 November 2023.[2] It was the first ever global summit on artificial intelligence, and is planned to become a recurring event.
Background
The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has made AI one of the priorities of his government,[3] announcing that the UK would host a global AI Safety conference in autumn 2023.[4]
Venue
Bletchley Park was a World War II codebreaking facility established by the British government on the site of a Victorian manor and is in the British city of Milton Keynes. It has played an important role in the history of computing, with some of the first modern computers being built at the facility.[5]
Outcomes
28 countries at the summit, including the United States, China, and the European Union, have issued an agreement known as the Bletchley Declaration,
The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Sunak did a live interview on AI safety on 2 November on X.[12]
2nd Summit
The next AI Safety Summit was hosted by South Korea on 21-22 May 2024.[13] A future summit is planned to be held in France in late 2024.[14]
Notable attendees
The following individuals attended the summit:[needs update]
- Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom[1]
- Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States[1]
- Charles III, King of the United Kingdom (attending virtually)[15]
- Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, owner of X, SpaceX, Neuralink, and xAI[1]
- Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy[1]
- Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission[1]
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI[1]
- Nick Clegg, former British politician and president of global affairs at Meta Platforms[1]
- DeepMind[16]
- Michelle Donelan, UK secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology[16]
- Věra Jourová, the European Commission’s vice-president for Values and Transparency[16]
- Gina Raimondo, United States secretary of commerce[11]
- Wu Zhaohui, Chinese vice-minister of science and technology[11]
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- ^ "US announces 'strongest global action yet' on AI safety". BBC News. 30 October 2023. Archived from the original on 31 October 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ a b c Stacey, Kiran; Milmo, Dan (1 November 2023). "UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI's 'catastrophic' danger". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
- ^ Kleinman, Zoe; Seddon, Sean (3 November 2023). "Elon Musk tells Rishi Sunak AI will put an end to work - BBC News". BBC News. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Coulter, Martin (12 April 2024). "South Korea to host second AI Safety Summit on May 21-22 | Reuters". Reuters. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "South Korea and France to host next two AI Safety Summits". Reuters. 1 November 2023. Archived from the original on 1 November 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
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- ^ a b c Milmo, Dan; Stacey, Kiran (1 November 2023). "'It's not clear we can control it': what they said at the Bletchley Park AI summit". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2023.