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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Kiran Stacey

‘It’s not clear we can control it’: what they said at the Bletchley Park AI summit

Elon Musk speaks with members of the media – he wears white shirt with open neck, a black jacket and a lanyard with security pass
Elon Musk described AI as ‘one of the biggest threats to humanity’. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

The global AI safety summit opened at Bletchley Park on Wednesday with a landmark declaration from countries including the UK, US, EU and China that the technology poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity.

The so-called Bletchley declaration said: “There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models.”

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