The AI Safety Summit was an international conference discussing the safety and

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. It was held at Bletchley Park,

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, United Kingdom, on 1–2 November 2023. 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,

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, has made AI one of the priorities of his government, announcing that the UK would host a global AI Safety conference in autumn 2023.

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

. It has played an important role in the history of computing, with some of the first modern computers being built at the facility.

Outcomes

28 countries at the summit, including the United States, China, and the European Union, have issued an agreement known as the Bletchley Declaration, calling for international co-operation to manage the challenges and risks of artificial intelligence. Emphasis has been placed on regulating "Frontier AI", a term for the latest and most powerful AI systems. Concerns that have been raised at the summit include the potential use of AI for terrorism, criminal activity, and warfare, as well as existential risk posed to humanity as a whole.The president of the United States, Joe Biden, signed an executive order requiring AI developers to share safety results with the US government. The US government also announced the creation of an American AI Safety Institute, as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Sunak did a live interview on

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on 2 November on X.

2nd Summit

The next AI Safety Summit was hosted by South Korea on 21-22 May 2024. A future summit is planned to be held in France in late 2024.

Notable attendees

Vice President Harris at the group photo of the 2023 AI Safety Summit

The following individuals attended the summit: *

, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom * Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States * Charles III, King of the United Kingdom (attending virtually) * Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, owner of X,

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, Neuralink, and xAI * Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy * Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission * Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI * Nick Clegg, former British politician and president of global affairs at

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* Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of

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* Michelle Donelan, UK secretary of state for Science, Innovation and Technology * Věra Jourová, the European Commission’s vice-president for Values and Transparency * Gina Raimondo, United States secretary of commerce * Wu Zhaohui, Chinese vice-minister of

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References

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