Global leaders from government, tech, civil society and academia at set to gather in Britain on the 1st and 2nd of November,2023 for a landmark summit on artificial intelligence, amid growing concern over the safety of the fast-moving technology as it rapidly outpaces efforts to regulate it.
Billionaire Elon Musk is expected to attend the two-day summit and will host a live conversation with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on his platform X, after the summit.
Musk will be joining leaders from some of the world’s top AI companies and confirmed guests reportedly include Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, Sam Altman, who heads up ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Dario Amodei, chief executive and co-founder of Anthropic, as well as Palantir’s Alex Karp, Cohere’s Aidan Gomez and Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque.
Other tech titans are also expected to be well represented, with Microsoft sending its policy chief Brad Smith, Google its technology and society lead James Manyika and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta both its AI and policy heads Yann LeCun, considered one of three “godfathers” of modern AI, and Nick Clegg, who is also a former U.K. deputy prime minister.
Vice President Kamala Harris will be representing the United States at the summit and will be delivering a “major policy speech” in London on Wednesday outlining the administration’s “vision for the future of AI.”
Source: Ghana/ Max TV/ Max FM/ max.com.gh/ Princess Sandra Richardson
