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Ahead of the AI Safety Summit start tomorrow morning taking position outside of London in Bletchley Park , today , the U.K. politics hasconfirmed more detailsabout who is actually endure to be attend the event . The inclination ’s publication come after week of meditation and critique that the case ’s line up — both in terms of topics and attender — would fall short of giving a full representation of the unlike stakeholders and yield at play .
Organizers have read that some of the newspaper headline conversation topics will include the mind of ruinous risk in AI ; how to identify and react to it ; and establishing an agreed concept of “ frontier AI . ”
depend on how skinny you think those risk are to reality , some of the ideas might seem more nonobjective , and less about some of the more specific and fight worries mass have voiced about the part AI is playing right now , for exemplar in furthering misinformation , or offering a helping hand to malicious hack looking for ways to part into meshwork .
As wewrote yesterday , the U.K. is part using this event — the first of its kind , as it has pointed out — to stake out a territory for itself on the AI map — both as a seat to construct AI business , but also as an authority in the overall field .
That , coupled with the fact that the topics and plan of attack are focalize on possible issues , the affair experience like one very gilded photograph opportunity and PR recitation , a way for the government to show itself off in the most overconfident elbow room at the same time that it slides down in the polls and it also face a disastrous , bad - flavor inquiry into how it handled the COVID-19 pandemic . On the other hand , the U.K.doeshave the certification for a butt at the table , so if the governing is meet a hired man here , it ’s able to do it because its posting are strong .
The subsequent guest list , predictably , tend more toward organizations and attendees from the U.K. It ’s also almost as revealing to see who isnotparticipating .
The 46 academic and civil beau monde institutions admit national universities such as Oxford and Birmingham ( but not Cambridge ) ; alongside international institutions like Stanford and several other U.S. universities ( but not some you might have expected , like MIT ) ; China ’s Academy of Sciences will be present . Groups like the Alan Turing Institute , the Ada Lovelace institute , the Mozilla Foundation and the Rand Corporation will also be present .
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Countries participating include the U.S. ( represented by Vice President Kamala Harris ) ; a routine of European area ( but inquisitively none from the Nordics ) ; Ukraine but not Russia ( yes , it ’s sanctioned , but that has n’t stopped someone from the country vie in sports , and AI academic are , essentially , athletes of another kind ) . Brazil is the sole representative of Latin America among a handful of country from the Global South .
The 40 businesses include several gravid hitters like Google , Meta , Microsoft and Salesforce but not Apple nor Amazon ( AWS will be there , however ) ; OpenAI and Elon Musk ’s X AI will also be there ; player in the world of processor include ARM , Nvidia and Graphcore are participate ; along with several startup . And it will also admit a handful of multilateral organizations , including the United Nations and some of its government agency .
