AI Safety Summit 2023: The 6 highlights you must know

The first Global AI Safety Summit was held at Bletchley Park on November 1 and 2, 2023. The AI Safety Summit 2023 was hosted by the United Kingdom (UK) and leading AI nations have reached a world-first agreement to establish a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier AI.

At the AI Safety Summit 2023 (Bletchley Park) 28 nations from the world established a shared understanding of the opportunities and risks posed by frontier AI and the need for governments to work together to meet the most significant challenges. During the summit UK and the US, EU and China agreed on opportunities, risks and the need for international action on frontier AI – systems where we face the most urgent and dangerous risks. 

Rishi Sunak, UK Prime Minister said, “The UK has long been home to the transformative technologies of the future, so there is no better place to host the first-ever global AI safety summit than at Bletchley Park this November.  To fully embrace the extraordinary opportunities of artificial intelligence, we must grip and tackle the risks to ensure it develops safely in the years ahead. With the combined strength of our international partners, thriving AI industry and expert academic community, we can secure the rapid international action we need for the safe and responsible development of AI around the world.”

During the AI Safety Summit 2023, the objective of the 28 nations is to develop a deep understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its global proliferation. At the summit, the global participants also discussed and focussed on understanding the risks and threats caused by AI. They also established a global AI platform for further global collaboration to analyse various aspects of AI and its implementations along with the proliferation. 

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What is The Bletchley Declaration by Countries Attending the AI Safety Summit, 1-2 November 2023: The official document: Download Here 

The top 10 highlights of the First Global AI Safety Summit: Opportunity, Threat and Proliferation

Question 1: AI Safety Summit 2023: When and where it was held

Answer. Global AI Safety Summit was held at Bletchley Park on November 1 and 2, 2023

Question 2: How many countries participated in the AI Safety Summit 2023? 

Answer: The Bletchley Declaration on AI safety sees 28 countries from across the globe including Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as the EU, agreeing to the urgent need to understand and collectively manage potential risks through a new joint global effort to ensure AI is developed and deployed in a safe, responsible way for the benefit of the global community.

Question 3: How many countries endorsed the AI Safety Summit Declaration 2023? 

Answer: Countries endorsing the Declaration include Brazil, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates.

Question 4 What are the four Frontier AI Risks discussed at the Global AI Safety Summit? 

Answer: The four Frontier AI Risks discussed at the Global AI Safety Summit are mentioned below. 

1. Risks to Global Safety from Frontier AI Misuse: Discussion of the safety risks posed by recent and next-generation frontier AI models, including risks to biosecurity and cybersecurity.

2. Risks from Unpredictable Advances in Frontier AI Capability: Discussion of risks from unpredictable ‘leaps’ in frontier AI capability as models are rapidly scaled, emerging forecasting methods, and implications for future AI development, including open-source.

3. Risks from Loss of Control over Frontier AI: Discussion of whether and how very advanced AI could in the future lead to loss of human control and oversight, risks this would pose, and tools to monitor and prevent these scenarios.

4. Risks from the Integration of Frontier AI into Society: Risks from the integration of frontier AI into society include election disruption, bias, impacts on crime and online safety, and exacerbating global inequalities. The discussion will include measures countries are already taking to address these risks.

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Question 5. What are the four Improving Frontier AI Safety discussed at the Global AI Safety Summit? 

Answer: The four Improving Frontier AI Safety discussed at the Global AI Safety Summit 2023 are mentioned below. 

1. What should Frontier AI developers do to scale responsibly: Multidisciplinary discussion of Responsible Capability Scaling at frontier AI developers including defining risk thresholds, effective model risk assessments, pre-commitments to specific risk mitigations, robust governance and accountability mechanisms, and model development choices.

2. What should National Policymakers do in relation to the risks and opportunities of AI: Multidisciplinary discussion of different policies to manage frontier AI risks in all countries including monitoring, accountability mechanisms, licensing, and approaches to open-source AI models, as well as lessons learned from measures already being taken.

3. What should the International Community do in relation to the risks and opportunities of AI: Multidisciplinary discussion of where international collaboration is most needed to both manage risks and realise opportunities from frontier AI, including areas for international research collaborations.

4. What should the Scientific Community do in relation to the risks and opportunities of AI: Multidisciplinary discussion of the current state of technical solutions for frontier AI safety, the most urgent areas of research, and where promising solutions are emerging.

Safety and Security Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence to 2025: The Official Document Download Here 

Question 6: What are the four Safety and Security Risks discussed at the Global AI Safety Summit? 

Answer: 

• Cyber-attacks: Generative A can be used to create faster-paced, more effective and larger-scale cyber intrusion via tailored phishing methods or replicating malware.
• Increased digital vulnerabilities: Generative AI integration into critical functions and infrastructure presents a new attack surface through corrupting training data (‘data poisoning’), hijacking model output (‘prompt injection’), extracting sensitive training data (‘model inversion’), misclassifying information (‘perturbation’) and targeting computing power.
• Erosion of trust in information: Generative AI could lead to a pollution of the public information ecosystem with hyper-realistic bots and synthetic media (‘deepfakes’) influencing societal debate and reflecting pre-existing social biases.
• Political and societal influence: Generative AI tools have already been shown capable of persuading humans on political issues and can be used to increase the scale, persuasiveness and frequency of disinformation and misinformation.
• Insecure use and misuse: Generative AI integration into critical systems and infrastructure risks data leaks, biased and discriminatory systems or compromised human decision-making through poor information security and opaque algorithm processes (e.g. ‘hallucinations’).
• Weapon instruction: Generative AI can be used to assemble knowledge on physical attacks by non-state violent actors, including for chemical, biological and radiological weapons.

Future risks of frontier AI: The official document Download Here 

Question 7: Who are the Global AI Safety Summit 2023 participating countries, Academia and civil society, Governments, Industry and related organisations and Multilateral organisations?

Answer. 

Academia and civil society	Governments	Industry and related organisations	Multilateral organisations
Ada Lovelace Institute	Australia	Adept	Council of Europe
Advanced Research and Invention Agency	Brazil	Aleph Alpha	European Commission
African Commission on Human and People’s Rights	Canada	Alibaba	Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
AI Now Institute	China	Amazon Web Services	International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Alan Turing Institute	France	Anthropic	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Algorithmic Justice League	Germany	Apollo Research	UNESCO
Alignment Research Center	India	ARM	United Nations
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University	Indonesia	Cohere
Blavatnik School of Government	Ireland	Conjecture
British Academy	Israel	Darktrace
Brookings Institution	Italy	Databricks
Carnegie Endowment	Japan	Eleuther AI
Centre for AI Safety	Kenya	Faculty AI
Centre for Democracy and Technology	Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	Frontier Model Forum
Centre for Long-Term Resilience	Netherlands	Google DeepMind
Centre for the Governance of AI	New Zealand	Google
Chinese Academy of Sciences	Nigeria	Graphcore
Cohere for AI	Republic of Korea	Helsing
Collective Intelligence Project	Republic of the Philippines	Hugging Face
Columbia University	Rwanda	IBM
Concordia AI	Singapore	Imbue
ETH AI Center	Spain	Inflection AI
Future of Life Institute	Switzerland	Meta
Institute for Advanced Study	Türkiye	Microsoft
Liverpool John Moores University	Ukraine	Mistral
Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute	United Arab Emirates	Naver
Mozilla Foundation	United States of America	Nvidia
National University of Cordoba		Omidyar Group
National University of Singapore		OpenAI
Open Philanthropy		Palantir
Oxford Internet Institute		Rise Networks
Partnership on AI		Salesforce
RAND Corporation		Samsung Electronics
Real ML		Scale AI
Responsible AI UK		Sony
Royal Society		Stability AI
Stanford Cyber Policy Institute		techUK
Stanford University		Tencent
Technology Innovation Institute		Trail of Bits
Université de Montréal		XAI
University College Cork
University of Birmingham
University of California, Berkeley
University of Oxford
University of Southern California
University of Virginia