Representatives of several nations, businesses, civil society and AI experts are due to take part in the first ever AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park today.
The Department of Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said they will discuss the global future of the technology and work towards a shared understanding of the risks.
It said the US, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and China are among the nations confirmed as attendees of the two-day event, along with representatives from The Alan Turing Institute, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Ada Lovelace Institute.
Day one will involve several roundtable discussions on improving frontier AI safety with developers such as Open-AI, Anthropic and Deepmind. Delegates will consider how risk thresholds, effective safety assessments and robust governance and accountability mechanisms can be defined for the safe scaling of the technology.
This will run alongside discussions on the potential of AI to negatively impact society through the disruption of elections, erosion of trust and widening global inequalities.
There will also be talks around what national policy makers, the international community, and scientists and researchers can do to manage the risks while harnessing the opportunities of AI to deliver economic and social benefits.
Extraordinary force
Secretary of State for Technology Michelle Donelan said: “AI is already an extraordinary force for good in our society, with limitless opportunity to grow the global economy, deliver better public services and tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.
“But the risks posed by frontier AI are serious and substantive and it is critical that we work together, both across sectors and countries to recognise these risks.
“This summit provides an opportunity for us to ensure we have the right people with the right expertise gathered around the table to discuss how we can mitigate these risks moving forward. Only then will we be able to truly reap the benefits of this transformative technology in a responsible manner.”
