London Futurists's video: Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit - A preview

If you had a chance to speak for ten minutes to the politicians and other international leaders who will gather at the UK's Bletchley Park on 1-2 November for the AI Safety Summit, what would you want to say? The organisers of that Summit have announced the following five objectives "to make frontier AI safe, and to ensure nations and citizens globally can realise its benefits, now and in the future": 1.) A shared understanding of the risks posed by frontier AI and the need for action 2.) A forward process for international collaboration on frontier AI safety, including how best to support national and international frameworks 3.) Areas for potential collaboration on AI safety research, including evaluating model capabilities and the development of new standards to support governance 4.) Appropriate measures which individual organisations should take to increase frontier AI safety 5.) Showcase how ensuring the safe development of AI will enable AI to be used for good globally. But are these actually the best objectives? And what do these really mean? This London Futurists webinar, recorded on 23rd September 2023, featured a number of short presentations on the above questions, ahead of a facilitated group discussion. The speakers were: *) Jerome Glenn - Executive Director of The Millennium Project, and lead editor of the recent report on the governance of the transition to Artificial General Intelligence *) Francisco Cordoba - Fintech entrepreneur, MIT innovator, MA from UCL, Edmund Hillary fellow (NZ) & author of the book Beat The Robots. *) Amitā Kapoor - Oxford University AI/Machine Learning Tutor and Mentor, and author of five books about AI and Machine Learning *) Kim Solez - Director of the course “Technology and the Future of Medicine” at the University of Alberta, Canada *) Orit Kopel - AI Ethics researcher at King's College London, Founder & CEO Glass Voices, Co-Founder of WikiTribune, and former CEO of the Jimmy Wales Foundation *) Tony Czarnecki - Managing Partner, Sustensis ("a think tank on civilisational transition to coexistence with superintelligence"), and author of 6 books on the future of AI. The meeting was introduced and moderated by David Wood, Chair of London Futurists. For more information about this event, see https://www.meetup.com/london-futurists/events/295992323 For the recommendations of the Future of Life Institute regarding the Bletchley Park Summit, see https://futureoflife.org/project/enhancing-multilateral-engagement-in-the-governance-of-ai/ and especially this PDF: https://futureoflife.org/fli_ai_summit_recommendations/ For the report created by The Millennium Project, "Transition from Artificial Narrow to Artificial General Intelligence Governance", see https://www.millennium-project.org/transition-from-artificial-narrow-to-artificial-general-intelligence-governance/ For the London Futurists open survey, "Anticipating AI in 2030", see https://transpolitica.org/projects/surveys/anticipating-ai-30/