Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit: A preview

If you had a chance to speak for ten minutes to the politicians and other international leaders who will gather at the UK's Bletchley Park on 1-2 November for the AI Safety Summit, what would you want to say?

The organisers of that Summit have announced the following five objectives "to make frontier AI safe, and to ensure nations and citizens globally can realise its benefits, now and in the future":

1. A shared understanding of the risks posed by frontier AI and the need for action
2. A forward process for international collaboration on frontier AI safety, including how best to support national and international frameworks
3. Appropriate measures which individual organisations should take to increase frontier AI safety
4. Areas for potential collaboration on AI safety research, including evaluating model capabilities and the development of new standards to support governance
5. Showcase how ensuring the safe development of AI will enable AI to be used for good globally.

But are these actually the best objectives? And what do these really mean?

At this London Futurists webinars you will hear a number of short presentations on the above questions, ahead of a facilitated group discussion.

The meeting will be recorded and the content made available to the people actually attending the Bletchley Park Summit.

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This event will be hosted on Zoom. To register, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ArLarDASDykJWET9PAQeQ

On this occasion, there will be no charge to register for the webinar or to attend it.

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The following panellists will each offer a ten minute presentation of their ideas:

• Jerome Glenn - Executive Director of The Millennium Project, and lead editor of the recent report on the governance of the transition to Artificial General Intelligence
• Francisco Cordoba - Fintech entrepreneur, MIT innovator, MA from UCL, Edmund Hillary fellow (NZ) & author of the book Beat The Robots.
• Amitā Kapoor - Oxford University AI/Machine Learning Tutor and Mentor, and author of five books about AI and Machine Learning
• Kim Solez - Director of the course “Technology and the Future of Medicine” at the University of Alberta, Canada
• Orit Kopel - AI Ethics researcher at King's College London, Founder & CEO Glass Voices, Co-Founder of WikiTribune, and former CEO of the Jimmy Wales Foundation
• Tony Czarnecki - Managing Partner, Sustensis ("a think tank on civilisational transition to coexistence with superintelligence"), and author of 6 books on the future of AI

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The webinar will start broadcasting at 4pm UK time on Sat 23rd Sept. To find this time in other timezones, use https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html?iso=20230923T150000&p1=136

Please log into Zoom up to 10 minutes ahead of the start time of the event, so you won't miss the start of the live broadcast.

As the discussion proceeds, attendees will be welcome to raise questions and vote to prioritise questions raised by others.

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Recommended reading ahead of the event:

• A five page document "Global AI Governance – Failure modes and key questions"
• Responses to the ongoing open survey "Anticipating AI in 2030"

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To register for this event, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ArLarDASDykJWET9PAQeQ