World leaders are gathering in Paris on February 10 for the AI Action Summit, as concern grows about how to develop regulatory oversight of artificial intelligence. The two-day summit follows the AI Safety Summit held in Britain in Bletchley Park in 2023 and a smaller meeting in Seoul in 2024. Bletchley focused on the debate surrounding the ‘doomsday’ risks posed by AI, and resulted in all 25 states, including the United States and China, signing the Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety.
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister at the time, described the declaration as ‘a landmark achievement that sees the world’s greatest AI powers agree on the urgency behind understanding the risks of AI’. At the next summit in Seoul last May, 16 leading AI companies made voluntary commitments to safely and transparently develop AI.
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