The second Global AI Safety Summit is facing lower attendance and a shift in focus from existential risks to more practical concerns like data limitations and environmental impact.
Tesla mogul Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rubbed shoulders with some of their fiercest critics, while China co-signed the "Bletchley Declaration" alongside the United States and others, signalling a willingness to cooperate despite mounting tensions with the West.
Second Global AI Safety Summit: As the first summit closed in November, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised subsequent events would be held every six months so governments could keep tabs on the rapidly-developing technology.
South Korea will host the second global AI (artificial intelligence) safety summit on May 21-22, six months after Britain held the inaugural event at Bletchley Park. In a statement published on Friday, government officials said the event would build on the "Bletchley Declaration", an agreement between countries - including the U.S. and China - to cooperate on AI safety. Former Google researcher and "godfather of AI" Geoffrey Hinton said the technology posed a more urgent threat to the world than