U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are set to join delegates Thursday at a U.K. summit focused on containing risks from rapid advances in cutting edge artificial intelligence.
Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, right, meets with US Vice President Kamala Harris at 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday Nov. 1, 2023. The vice president is visiting the UK to attend the British government’s AI Safety Summit. US Vice President Kamala Harris leaves 10 Downing Street after a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Harris is on a two day visit to England to attend the AI Summit at Bletchley Park.
Binding regulation for AI is not among the summit’s goals. Sunak has said that the U.K.'s approach should not be to rush into regulation but to fully understand AI first.where she said the world needs to acting right away to address “the full spectrum” of AI risks, not just existential threats such as massive cyberattacks or AI-formulated bioweapons.
She announced a new U.S. AI safety institute to draw up standards for testing AI models for public use. Sunak had also proposed his own AI safety institute, with a similar role, days earlier. Sunak has also proposed a global expert panel on AI, similar to the United Nations climate change panel. He’s expected to provide more details on Thursday and is also scheduled to discuss AI with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a conversation that will be played on the social network X, which Musk owns, after the summit ends.
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