AI safety summit: UK to push firms in Seoul to ‘go further’ in developing models responsibly

The UK government said it would use a major summit in South Korea this week to make a fresh push on reducing the risks around artificial intelligence (AI), putting an onus on firms to develop AI responsibly.

“There will be some agreements that we broker,” Britain’s secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, Michelle Donelan, said in an interview ahead of a key summit in Seoul. “We’ll be going to ask companies how they can go even further in showing they’ve built safety into the release of their models.”

The UK has sought to take a position of global leadership on managing the risks and opportunities around the development of the emerging technology, hosting a summit on AI safety last year as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has tried to make the issue part of his political legacy. The Seoul event, which will have representatives from countries including China, the US, India and Canada, marks the latest round of high-level ministerial talks.