Elon Musk and Kamala Harris join Chinese representatives from Alibaba and Tencent at UK AI Security Summit as creative industry focuses on AI Fringe

Elon Musk landed his private jet at Luton Airport outside London on Tuesday, ahead of the UK’s two-day security summit on artificial intelligence, which starts on Wednesday.

The Tesla and SpaceX tech billionaire was a late-announced addition to the list of around 200 attendees expected to gather at Bletchley Park, the historic base of Britain’s World War II codebreakers, in the biography of Alan Turing captured on a big screen. . The Imitation Game.

Other high-profile attendees include US Vice President Kamala Harris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI and British AI guru Demis Hassabis at Google’s Deepmind. (Scroll down for the full list).

Billed as the first global conference of its scope on AI safety, the AI ​​Safety Summit will be chaired by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss the risks of AI and how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action.

Musk will stay after the conference officially ends to have a public conversation with Sunak, which will be broadcast live on X (formerly Twitter).

The summit focused on five key areas: the risks of Frontier AI (a single AI that can perform many different tasks); How can a process for international cooperation on the latest AI security be initiated in a way that supports national and international frameworks? what steps individual organizations should take to increase cross-border AI security; possible collaboration on AI security research and a showcase of how security will use AI forever.

The event comes amid a number of initiatives worldwide aimed at creating some kind of regulatory framework for AI technology amid fears that it could have a negative impact on human society.

US President Joe Biden was a step ahead of other countries on Monday when he signed an executive order outlining broad priorities for AI security and setting standards in the areas of privacy, equality and civil, consumer and worker rights.

At the same time, the European Union is currently in the final stages of finalizing its first AI law, with the aim of completing it by the end of the year.

China also unveiled its Global AI Governance Initiative on October 20, saying: “We must adhere to the principle of developing AI sustainably, respect relevant international laws, and develop AI on the common values ​​of humanity, namely peace, development base. , equality, justice, democracy and freedom.”

The country’s presence at the AI ​​Security Summit in the United Kingdom has drawn criticism in some quarters. The former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, wrote in a letter

The invitation was maintained as relations between Britain and China thawed in recent months.

The Chinese delegation includes representatives from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and technology giants Alibaba and Tencent.

In addition to the main conference, a number of other events will also take place in London and the UK this week under the AI ​​Fringe banner.

Representatives from the creative industries will discuss the impact of AI on their industries at one of these events at the British Library on Wednesday.

Panellists include Liam Budd, operations officer at Equity UK, Nicola Solomon, chair of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, Isabelle Doran, chief executive of the Association of Photographers, and Moiya McTier, adviser to the Washington and Austin-based Human Artistry Campaign.

The latter organization was launched at SXSW in March with the aim of giving the global creative industry a voice in the debate about the benefits and risks of AI. The more than 100 member organizations include SAG-AFTRA, IMPALA and the NFL Players Association.

McTier spoke to the panel about the role of the body in an interview with the BBC radio program Today.

“We have seven core principles that we believe policy makers and AI developers should adopt when trying to develop ethical AI, such as transparency of algorithms so we know what kind of data they are processing and how it is being used,” she said.

Additional principles include obtaining an artist’s permission to use their work to train or deploy generative AI models, and if used, it will be credited and compensated.

“The technology is there and all our members are aware that AI has potential positive impacts and can be used for good and fun, but we want to ensure that it is used responsibly,” McTier said. “It’s here to stay, so let’s create policies that ensure AI companies use it responsibly.”

Official full list of organizations and countries participating in the AI ​​Security Summit

Science and civil society

Governments

Industry and related organizations

Multilateral organizations