The guest list is predominantly U.K.-based, with attendees including Oxford and Birmingham universities, the Alan Turing Institute, and the Ada Lovelace institute. International attendees include Stanford and several other U.S. universities, China’s Academy of Sciences, and Vice President Kamala Harris representing the U.S. Notably absent are Cambridge University, MIT, and Nordic countries. The 40 businesses attending include Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, OpenAI, and Elon Musk’s X AI, but not Apple or Amazon.
Key takeaways:
- The U.K. government has confirmed the attendees for the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, which includes representatives from academic institutions, businesses, and countries worldwide.
- The summit will focus on topics such as catastrophic risk in AI, identifying and responding to it, and establishing an agreed concept of “frontier AI”.
- Notable attendees include representatives from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Salesforce, the United Nations, and Vice President Kamala Harris representing the U.S. Notably absent are representatives from Apple, Amazon, and any Nordic countries.
- The U.K. is using this event to position itself as a key player in the AI field, despite facing criticism for its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.