Global leaders from government, tech, civil society and academia will gather in Britain on Wednesday and Thursday for a landmark summit on artificial intelligence, amid growing concern over the safety of the fast-moving technology as it rapidly outpaces efforts to regulate it.
Musk will be joining leaders from some of the world’s top AI companies and confirmed guests reportedly include Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google DeepMind, Sam Altman, who heads up ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Dario Amodei, chief executive and co-founder of Anthropic, as well as Palantir’s Other tech titans are also expected to be well represented, with Microsoft sending its policy chief Brad Smith, Google its technology and society leadAmong experts reported to be attending are respected academics like Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio—who round out the trifecta of modern AI “godfathers” and warned AI couldto be taking up his offer—Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are notable exceptions and UN chief Antonio Guterres is also expected to...