By Lee Kyoung Mi
Video = Ministry of Science and ICT's official YouTube account
The AI Seoul Summit from May 21-22 will have world leaders discuss the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to live safely and harmoniously via videoconferencing and at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.
Jointly hosted by Korea and the U.K., the event is a follow-up to the AI Safety Summit held in November last year at Bletchley Park in the British city of Milton Keynes. In last year's talks, leaders around the globe discussed improving the safety of AI while focusing on its risks.
At the Seoul gathering, however, participants will comprehensively talk about AI development that boosts safety, stimulates innovation, and promotes global inclusion and coexistence while also raising AI safety.
On its first day on May 21, the summit via videoconferencing will have world leaders, heads of international organizations and representatives from leading tech companies take part in talks on guaranteeing AI safety, stimulate innovation and push for an inclusive future.
The next day, a ministerial meeting will cover more specific measures like bolstering AI safety capacity and achieve sustainable development in AI.
The day before the summit's opening, President Yoon Suk Yeol and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak published a joint op-ed piece in the British I Newspaper and Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo.
"Although positive efforts have been made to shape global AI governance, significant gaps still remain," their piece said. "That's why we are convening world leaders and CEOs at the AI Seoul Summit on 21 and 22 May – building on the conversation we kick-started at Bletchley Park in November. We believe realising the full potential of AI requires three vital ingredients."
"The AI Seoul Summit will help to create a vision for AI governance which deals with those gaps, while promoting the fundamental priorities of innovation, safety, and inclusivity."
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