AI Summit Talks featuring Professor Stuart Russell

​What is decided at the global AI Safety Summit at the UK's Bletchley Park on 1-2 November may significantly influence our common future. Much is at stake!

Will the politicians, technologists, business leaders, and representatives from civil society gathered there, be distracted from the most important issues? Will they get bogged down in petty politics or virtue signalling? Or will they reach a clearer understanding of the landscape of major risks and astonishing opportunities posed by next generation frontier AI systems? Will they start work on practical measures that can be taken, individually and collaboratively, to steer the development and deployment of these systems toward safe, beneficial outcomes?

With these questions in mind, friends of London Futurists at Existential Risk Observatory and AI alignment solutions company Conjecture have organised this preview event at Wilton Hall, adjacent to Bletchley Park, on the afternoon before the Summit. A number of participants from the Summit itself will be in attendance - as panellists or as audience members.

The event will feature a talk by Professor Stuart Russell of Berkeley, author of Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. This will be followed by a reply from Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture, and then a panel discussion that brings together leading voices from the societal debate and the political realm:

• Annika Brack, Chief Executive Officer of ICFG
• Journalist Hal Hodson from the Economist
• Technology visionary Jaan Tallinn from CSER
• MIT professor Max Tegmark,
• Economist Alexandra Mousavizadeh, CEO at Evident
• Ron Roozendaal, Deputy Director General of the Netherlands Ministry of the Interior
• FLI Director of Policy Mark Brakel
• Andrea Miotti, AI Policy and Governance specialist at Conjecture.

Moderator of the afternoon will be David Wood, chair of London Futurists.

Click here for details of how to reach Wilton Hall.

** Registration and attendance is free, but space is limited at Wilton Hall, so registration in advance is essential. Visit this site to register. **

PS: The event at Wilton Hall will be followed by an informal gathering at the nearby Three Trees pub. See this newsletter for more information.

PPS An update: For those unable to attend in person, the Wilton Hall event will be livestreamed at https://www.youtube.com/live/ACoopcrWmys?si=QZLSvqxQbYV1Vi7A