UPDATE 1-EU’s von der Leyen to attend Britain’s AI summit

(Provides context on AI summit in paragraphs 1-3, 6-8)

By Martin Coulter

LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Two of the European Union’s most senior officers plan to attend Britain’s synthetic intelligence (AI) security summit subsequent week, a two-day occasion that organisers hope will kickstart worldwide dialogue on AI regulation.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee, and Vera Jourova, a vp, will attend the summit, based on an replace to their official calendars printed on Friday.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is ready to host round 100 company at Bletchley Park, the nation property in southern England the place mathematician Alan Turing helped crack Nazi Germany’s Enigma code.

Whereas Sunak hopes to safe Britain’s function as a world chief in AI regulation, some have questioned what the summit will obtain in follow. Final week, Bloomberg reported a lot of world leaders – together with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and Canada’s Justin Trudeau – wouldn’t be attending.

The Fee beforehand declined to substantiate whether or not any EU representatives can be on the occasion, saying in September that officers had been reflecting on potential EU participation.

Whereas a number of world leaders, together with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, are anticipated to attend the summit, the total visitor checklist has not been made public.

The UK authorities’s agenda for the occasion, printed earlier this month, contains discussions on the unpredictable advances of the know-how and the potential for people to lose management of it.

Matt Clifford, a tech investor and one in all two chief organisers of the occasion, just lately instructed Reuters the purpose of the summit was to kickstart worldwide dialogue on AI regulation.

“It isn’t a parliament,” Clifford stated. “We’re not making legal guidelines. We’re not making treaties. We’re attempting to deliver totally different folks into the dialog with very totally different opinions.” (Reporting by Martin Coulter; modifying by Christina Fincher; Enhancing by Sharon Singleton)