Elon Musk touched down in his private jet at Luton airport outside London on Tuesday ahead of the UK’s two-day artificial intelligence safety summit, which kicks off on Wednesday.
The Tesla and SpaceX tech billionaire was a late announced addition to the roster of some 200 participants expected to gather in Bletchley Park, the historic base of the UK’s World War Two codebreakers, which was captured on the big screen in Alan Turing bio pic The Imitation Game.
Other high-profile attendees will include U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, and UK AI guru Demis Hassabis at Google’s Deepmind. (scroll down for full list).
The AI Safety Summit event, which is being billed as the first global conference of this stature on AI safety, has been spearheaded by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to discuss the risks of AI and how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action.
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