AI Safety Summit 2023 – First Global Summit on AI

• Date: 1-2 November 2023
• An international conference of political leaders and tech executives agreed to regulate AI. The tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and Sunak did a live interview on AI safety on 2 November on X.
• 28 countries including China and the United States as well as the European Union signed a declaration aimed at mitigating AI risks.
• How it works: The declaration kicked off the United Kingdom’s first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, a country house outside London, where Alan Turing and others cracked Germany’s Enigma code during World War II.
• The signatories agreed to jointly study safety concerns including disinformation, cybersecurity, and biohazards. They committed to addressing risks within their borders but didn’t announce specific programs.
• 10 countries including France, Germany, Japan, the U.S., and the UK will nominate experts to lead an international AI panel akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This panel will prepare a report on the “state of AI science.”
• Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Open AI, and other companies agreed to allow governments to test AI products before releasing them to the public.
• AI safety institutes established by individual countries will administer the tests. The UK and U.S. announced such institutes, which pledged to collaborate with each other and their counterparts in other countries.