Elon Musk anticipated to attend AI summit in UK

Elon Musk at the Viva Technology conference in Paris in JuneReuters

Elon Musk is predicted to attend a worldwide summit on synthetic intelligence within the UK this week.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak mentioned he would do a dwell interview with the tech billionaire after Thursday’s occasion.

The summit, at Bletchley Park, hopes to carry collectively AI consultants and international leaders to debate the potential dangers of synthetic intelligence.

US Vice-President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are on account of attend.

The BBC additionally understands Open AI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Nick Clegg will be a part of the gathering – in addition to a number of different tech leaders.

One of the godfathers of AI, Yoshua Bengio, has confirmed to the BBC he will probably be there.

In a put up on Mr Musk’s X, previously generally known as Twitter, Prime Minster Sunak mentioned: “In conversation with Elon Musk. After the AI Safety Summit. Thursday night on X.”

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Recent advances in AI have been hailed as revolutionary but additionally harmful – even a potential menace to humanity itself. It may result in mass job losses and supercharge disinformation.

On Monday President Joe Biden signed an government order that may require Artificial Intelligence (AI) builders to share security outcomes with the US authorities.

However, Mr Musk could argue for the US and different international locations to go additional.

In March he signed an open letter calling for a pause to “Giant AI Experiments”.

In an interview with the BBC in April Mr Musk mentioned he had been worrying about AI security for over a decade.

“I think there should be a regulatory body established for overseeing AI to make sure that it does not present a danger to the public,” he mentioned.

Mr Musk has additionally pitted himself towards AI firms because of the information they use to coach chatbots – the software program that learns how people interacts by scraping lots of knowledge from numerous sources to gasoline its information and interplay kinds.

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