The UK will hold a global summit on the risks of artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park, where the German Enigma was decoded in World War II

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's global summit on artificial intelligence security will be held at Bletchley Park, where top-secret encryptors worked during the Second World War.

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The event will take place in November 2023. It will be attended by government representatives, leading AI companies and experts. They will discuss how the risks posed by the technology can be mitigated through co-ordinated action at an international level.

Sunak announced the summit during a trip to Washington in June 2023 amid growing fears that the rapid development of AI could spiral out of control.

In recent months, the prime minister has changed his tone on the technology. Whereas he had previously been more optimistic about AI, he has now become increasingly vocal about the "existential" risk.

In doing so, Sunak has rejected the notion that the UK is too minor a player in AI. Instead, he is trying to position the UK as a natural centre for efforts to regulate the industry on a global scale, which could be a bridge between the US and China, as well as an alternative to what some see as a rigid EU approach.

Flashback

Bletchley Park, located in Buckinghamshire, holds an important place in the history of computer science. During the Second World War, German messages, including Enigma messages, were decoded here.

This helped to obtain important information for the Allies, which some estimate helped shorten the war by two years and saved millions of lives.

Source: The Guardian