May 21?-?AI Safety Summit??

South Korea and the United Kingdom are set to host a summit on AI safety?Tuesday, but analysts have raised?questions over how interested tech figures are in engaging.

What's happened so far? The United Kingdom held the?first major AI safety summit at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreaking and computers, last November. The meeting attracted a mixture of world leaders, policy makers and tech executives who discussed the potential of AI but also the risks it might pose to humanity. At the end of the summit, it was floated that a further summit six months later would continue the discussion, but the event hosted with South Korea will be dramatically smaller.

The impact? The conference’s agenda,?starting with a virtual leaders meeting?and then in-person sessions at a forum in Seoul, is expected to build on the work done at Bletchley Park, but the most significant impact of it may be the release of the first iteration of the?International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety, a study commissioned by the U.K. government.

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