UK AI Summit will promote some global cooperation

Significance

It led to international commitments from major developing countries, and brought together US and Chinese governments, which have thus far sought to shape global AI principles separately. The summit also established a recurrent scientific process for international cooperation on risk evaluation.

Impacts

• As more advanced AI systems are developed and made easily available, criminal misuses of this technology will rise.
• Tackling AI-generated disinformation and other harmful online content will become increasingly essential but also difficult.
• The UK ‘State of the Science’ report next year will be influential in collating the risks and opportunities presented by frontier AI.