2024 November SF AI Safety Summit - What we can do to help
Last week a new AI Safety Summit was announced by the US and UK's AISI. They don't call it a summit, but a "conference"
But luckily, there are some adults in the room. AISI organized this event, focuses 100% on AI safety, invites all the AI Safety Institutes (except China), all the big labs, and a lot of ministers.
This summit is a unique opportunity for us. We can try to steer it in the right direction. I have three ideas:
For some (stupid) race-dynamics / politcial reason, China is not on the list. China was present at the very first AI Safety Summit, but they were missing in Seoul. I think they were not invited.
We may be able to play a role in this. I'll reach out to Yi Zeng. Maybe I should reach out to Ian Hogarth and Yoshua Bengio, too.
It would be awesome if we could have a presence right there in SF! We have a lot of members there. It's a bit short-notice, but seems doable.
The ministers who will be there should be informed of the feasibility of a pause, the urgency of the matter and the severe risks from AI. We can play a role in this by reaching out to them
- I think because they don't want to feel like they are giving the finger to France.
But luckily, there are some adults in the room. AISI organized this event, focuses 100% on AI safety, invites all the AI Safety Institutes (except China), all the big labs, and a lot of ministers.
This summit is a unique opportunity for us. We can try to steer it in the right direction. I have three ideas:
Get China to join
For some (stupid) race-dynamics / politcial reason, China is not on the list. China was present at the very first AI Safety Summit, but they were missing in Seoul. I think they were not invited.
We may be able to play a role in this. I'll reach out to Yi Zeng. Maybe I should reach out to Ian Hogarth and Yoshua Bengio, too.
Protest then and there
It would be awesome if we could have a presence right there in SF! We have a lot of members there. It's a bit short-notice, but seems doable.
Mailing campaign to attendees
The ministers who will be there should be informed of the feasibility of a pause, the urgency of the matter and the severe risks from AI. We can play a role in this by reaching out to them
AISI is bringing together AI companies and researchers for an invite-only conference to accelerate the design and implementation of frontier AI safety frameworks. This post shares the call for submissions that we sent to conference attendees.
