Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is one of the only world leaders to fly to the conference, which begins on Wednesday.
Sunak’s spokesman told reporters this week that “bringing all the right people to the table to discuss this important issue” was “a huge achievement in itself”.
The summit will be held at a deliberately symbolic location: Bletchley Park, where top British codebreakers cracked Nazi Germany’s “Enigma” code, helping hasten the end of World War II.
It is also home to the National Computing Museum, the world’s largest collection of working historical computers.
From smartphones to airports, AI is already ubiquitous in everyday life, but its progress has accelerated in recent years with the development of pioneering technologies like the ChatGPAT conversational robot.
“It’s clear to me that what’s going to happen this year, in the next two, three years, in 200 years, (is that) historians will have a name for this period,” said Aldo Faisal, a professor of AI and neuroscience. ” At a briefing this month.
While the potential of AI raises many hopes, especially for medicine, its development is seen as largely uncontrolled.
In his speech, Sunak warned that AI has the potential to destroy thousands of jobs across a variety of sectors, including the arts and media, along with the threats of cyber, disinformation and fraud.
He stressed the need for countries to develop a “shared understanding of the risks we face”, which is currently lacking.
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