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

Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss

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The UK government hopes the summit will mark a turning point in how advanced AI technology is developed. Photograph: Pitinan Piyavatin/Alamy

One of the executives invited to Rishi Sunak’s international AI safety summit next month has warned that the conference risks achieving very little, accusing powerful tech companies of attempting to “capture” the landmark meeting.

Connor Leahy, the chief executive of the AI safety research company Conjecture, said he believed heads of government were poised to agree a style of regulation that would allow companies to continue developing “god-like” AI almost unchecked.

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