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

Bletchley summit communique does not agree to set up testing hub in UK, as some in government had hoped

The UK, US, EU 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.

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