LONDON - Britain will host the world's first global artificial intelligence safety summit this week to examine the risks of the fast-growing technology and kickstart an international dialogue on regulation of it.
China's presence is another sign of thawing relations with Britain, after its top diplomat James Cleverly visited Beijing in August in the first trip by a British foreign secretary in five years. Topics include how AI systems might be weaponised by hackers, or used by terrorists to build bioweapons, as well as the technology’s potential to gain sentience and wreak havoc on the world.
A recent Financial Times report said Sunak plans to launch a global advisory board for AI regulation, modeled on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Last week, the UN announced it had formed its own AI advisory board – made up of a few experts from industry, research, and different governments.