Global AI leaders agree to safety rules at Seoul summit
Silicon Republic May 21, 2024
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak said the AI Seoul Summit is a ‘world first’ for getting agreement from companies around the world, including from the US, China and the UAE.
Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are among 16 leading tech companies that have agreed to an expanded set of safety commitments relating to the development of AI.
In an agreement today (21 May) at the AI Seoul Summit in South Korea, the companies – including ones from China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – have signed a set of Frontier AI Safety Commitments that builds on the Bletchley Declaration that came out of a similar UK summit last year.
According to the agreement, AI tech companies will publish...