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Attendance of X owner is a boost for the event, which has been snubbed by Joe Biden and Emmanuel MacronElon Musk will attend Rishi Sunak’s AI safety summit this week in Bletchley Park, government sources have confirmed, with the two men to host a live conversation on the billionaire’s social media site X on Thursday.The technology multibillionaire will be one of the highest-profile attendees at the two-day summit hosted by the prime minister to discuss the dangers of advanced artific

PM hopes Bletchley Park summit will be the first of many, as No 10 denies some world leaders have ‘snubbed’ eventGlobal leaders, tech executives and experts are gathering on Wednesday and Thursday at Bletchley Park, the home of second world war codebreakers, for a landmark summit on safety in artificial intelligence.In a speech last week Rishi Sunak said AI – the term for computer systems that can perform tasks typically associated with intelligent beings – brought opport

US and French presidents will not attend conference being held this week in Bletchley ParkDowning Street has insisted Rishi Sunak is not being snubbed by other world leaders, with many of them not expected to attend the prime minister’s summit on artificial intelligence at Bletchley Park this week.No 10 said on Monday the government was pleased with the responses it had had to invitations to the summit, which Sunak announced earlier this year as he hopes to put the UK at the forefront of i

Executive order includes official guidance on privacy, civil rights, consumer protections and workers’ rightsTech companies will be required to share test results for their artificial intelligence systems with the US government before they are released, under an executive order issued by the White House.The government will also set stringent testing guidelines under the order which was published on Monday, ahead of a landmark AI safety summit in the UK on 1 and 2 November. Continue reading

Executive order also covers safety test results, privacy, civil rights, consumer protections and workers’ rightsJoe Biden signed an executive order on Monday that he called the most “significant” action that any government has taken on the safe deployment of AI.“We’re going to see more technological change in the next 10, maybe next five years than we’ve seen in the last 50 years,” the US president said at a press conference. “AI is all around us.

Experts say artificial intelligence can play an important role in exploiting the potential of countries’ fast-growing populationsIn South Africa, there are drones monitoring weeds; in Mauritius, there are computers crunching health data for better outcomes for patients; and in Nairobi, surveillance systems impose a modicum of order on the chaotic traffic.The bright new future of artificial intelligence in Africa is part of the bright new future of the continent as a whole, advocates say. C

There’s some inspired direction as Misery meets Ex Machina in this sci-fi psychological thriller In what has the distinctively zoned-out vibe of another lockdown-born project, Natalie Kennedy’s sci-fi psychological thriller sees Clare Rivers (Rachel Shelley), an author with writer’s block, sign up for a deluxe writing retreat operated entirely by AI. Sealed hermetically into her unit by a virus that corrupts the system, she can’t leave until she has produced a book, makin