World's first Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit begins at Buckingham in UK

Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar addressed the inaugural plenary session of the ‘AI Safety Summit 2023’ at Buckinghamshire in United Kingdom yesterday. He emphasised India's commitment to AI with a strong focus on safety, trust, and accountability. 

The Minister said that such international collaborations are extremely important, as we move forward in shaping the future of technology in an era where it is presenting some of the most exciting opportunities ever for mankind.

The Minister said Artificial Intelligence, is a kinetic enabler of India’s already accelerating and expanding digital economy, growth, and Governance. He added that we approach AI with a prism on openness, safety, trust, and accountability.  Minister further added that AI should be utilised only for the good, only for the progress, and prosperity of all our citizens



across all countries.

The objectives of the two-day Summit are deliberating the risks associated with AI, particularly at the cutting edge of its development, and exploring strategies for their mitigation through globally coordinated efforts.

The ‘AI Safety Summit 2023’ has assembled representatives from around the world, including governments, prominent AI corporations, civil society organisations, and research experts from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, South Korea, among others. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and executives from U.S. artificial intelligence companies such as Anthropic, Google’s DeepMind and OpenAI, and influential computer scientists like Yoshua Bengio, one of the “godfathers” of AI, are also attending.