No 10 plays down worries about Sunak’s AI safety summit having few top leaders
by Peter Walker Deputy political editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6FXNH)
Questions remain about gathering unlikely to help PM fulfil aspiration of UK shaping global approach
No one is yet quite sure who will attend or what, if anything, will be decided, but Rishi Sunak's government is adamant that next week's AI safety summit will be a vital first step towards getting to grips with a subject that is moving at a pace even the experts cannot fully comprehend.
Understandable worries inside No 10 that the Israel-Gaza war could mean a summit lacking in world leaders have eased slightly with confirmation that the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, will attend.
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