Prime Minister leads second day of talks at first-ever AI safety summit

• Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will travel to the AI Safety Summit today (Thursday 2 November).

• He will begin the day welcoming senior leaders to Bletchley Park and then host two sessions at the summit in the afternoon.

• The first session will focus on international priorities for AI in the next five years, with a small group of like-minded senior representatives from governments around the world. This includes the US, EU, Italy, France, Germany, Australia and the United Nations, as well as virtual attendance from Japan, Korea, and Singapore.

• The Prime Minister is expected to make the case for global responsibility to address the risks in order to seize the opportunities of AI. They will discuss the international collaboration needed to develop this in the coming years.

• The second session will have a wider cast list including the companies at the forefront of AI, academia and civil society, focused on the concrete action needed next year to ensure AI safety. Those attending include major AI business leaders like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Meta and xAI.

• In this session, they will discuss the plan for state-backed testing and evaluation of AI models before they are released.

• This follows the Prime Minister’s announcement of the UK’s AI Safety Institute last week, which will examine, evaluate, and test new types of AI to inform national and international policymaking.

• Yesterday, under the UK’s leadership, 28 countries, including the US and China, as well as the EU agreed for the first time on the opportunities, risks and need for international action on frontier AI – systems where we face the most urgent and dangerous risks.

Ahead of the first day of the summit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said:

“I believe there will be nothing more transformative to the futures of our children and grandchildren than technological advances like AI.

“We owe it to them to ensure AI develops in a safe and responsible way, gripping the risks it poses early enough in the process.

“The first-ever global AI Safety Summit led by the UK has already seen major AI powers sign up to the landmark Bletchley Declaration, agreeing on the shared responsibility to address the risks and urgently work together on frontier AI safety and research. 

“The UK has led the way in this global conversation on AI safety, but no one country can tackle the risks alone.

“I’m looking forward to discussing this further with partners, so we can all keep our people safe and ensure future generations can reap the benefits of AI.”