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

UK, US, EU and China sign declaration of AI’s ‘catastrophic’ danger

From left: the US secretary of commerce, Gina Raimondo; the UK technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, and Wu Zhaohui, China’s vice-minister of science and technology, at the AI safety summit.
From left: the US secretary of commerce, Gina Raimondo; the UK technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, and Wu Zhaohui, China’s vice-minister of science and technology, at the summit. Photograph: Leon Neal/PA Media

The UK, US, EU, Australia and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology.

Twenty-eight governments signed up to the so-called Bletchley declaration on the first day of the AI safety summit, hosted by the British government. The countries agreed to work together on AI safety research, even amid signs that the US and UK are competing to take the lead over developing new regulations.

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