00:00 Park, the iconic birthplace of computer science.
00:04 It's here that the first ever global summit on AI safety is taking place, bringing together
00:09 top officials from 28 countries with executives from cutting-edge tech firms.
00:14 Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hoping to position the UK as a leader in the rapidly developing
00:19 field.
00:20 "There can be no serious strategy for AI without at least trying to engage all of the world's
00:27 leading AI powers."
00:29 Sunak is pushing for a global AI regulation advisory board, based on the UN's Intergovernmental
00:35 Panel on Climate Change.
00:37 Other governments, meanwhile, are already racing to bring their regulations up to speed.
00:42 This week, US President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order aimed at protecting
00:47 people from the potential harms of the technology, from its use in fraud or disinformation to
00:53 the development of weapons.
00:55 The EU, meanwhile, is aiming to agree major legislation, the AI Act, by the end of December.
01:03 With recent applications like ChatGPT making unprecedented advances, leading researchers
01:08 in the field are calling on governments to do more to manage AI risks.
01:12 "I definitely see a lot of potential risks in misinformation and then over time moving
01:22 public conversation and swinging walls, etc."
01:26 Some have questioned the summit's focus on future existential threats to humanity from
01:30 cutting-edge frontier AI, saying more energy should be devoted to the more mundane threats
01:35 to jobs and civil society that the technology is already posing.
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