Ian Hogarth, chairman of the UK's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, at the opening plenary at the AI safety summit. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA WireBritain on Wednesday published a Bletchley Declaration, agreed with countries including the United States and China, aimed at boosting global efforts to co-operate on artificial intelligence safety.
Dara Calleary, Ireland’s digital minister, is representing the Government at the first plenary session of the summit, which is also being attended by industry heavyweights including Elon Musk and Meta president of global affairs, Nick Clegg. The declaration encouraged transparency and accountability from actors developing frontier AI technology on their plans to measure, monitor and mitigate potentially harmful capabilities.