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Digital officials, tech company bosses and researchers are converging Wednesday at a former codebreaking spy base near London to discuss and better understand the extreme risks posed by cutting-edge artificial intelligence.

Representatives from the USA, France, Japan and China will attend the summit, though world leaders like President Biden will not make an appearance.

US vice-president to say short-term problems with technology as pressing as existential ones, before UK summit

One of Sunaks major goals is to get delegates to agree on a first-ever communique about the nature of AI risks. He said the technology brings new opportunities but warns about frontier AIs threat to humanity, because it could be used to create biological weapons or be exploited by terrorists to sow fear and destruction.

Global leaders and tech bosses will meet at the WW2 codebreaker site for a two-day AI summit.

The location in Buckinghamshire is significant as it is a key site in the history of computer science development.

Kamala Harris will use a speech in the UK to stress the need for action to prevent some tech firms putting profit before protecting people.

One report says that British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has plans to launch a global advisory board for AI similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

"If you start thinking that humans are bad, then the natural conclusion is humans should die out."

The meeting is the brainchild of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who wants to carve out a role for Britain as an intermediary between the economic blocs of the United States, China and the European Union.