European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, US Vice President Kamala Harris, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Yoshua Bengio, founder and scientific director of Mila at the Quebec AI Institute, Vice Chair and President at Microsoft Brad Smith, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy acting director Alondra Nelson pose for a family photo on the second day of the UK Artificial Intelligence...
"Please contact the British sponsoring government department for the specific arrangements and outcomes of the meeting," the Chinese ministry said when asked why Wu had not featured in the public events on Thursday. The Chinese technology ministry declined to say why China did not agree to the proposal, which was about AI model testing.
Some British lawmakers had criticised China's participation in the inaugural AI summit. They questioned whether Beijing, which the West sees as a technological rival and military threat, should be included in meetings about sensitive technology.Wu attended the first day of the summit on Wednesday when China, the United States, European Union and 26 other countries agreed to share a common approach to identifying AI risks and ways to mitigate them, called the Bletchley Declaration.