South Korea, UK to co-host second global AI summit

South Korea and the UK will co-host the second global AI summit in Seoul this week, as the pace of innovation since the first AI summit in November leaves governments scrambling to keep up with a growing array of risks.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will oversee a virtual summit on Tuesday, amid calls for better regulation of artificial intelligence despite sharp disagreements over how the technology may affect humanity.

“Although positive efforts have been made to shape global AI governance, significant gaps still remain,” Sunak and Yoon said in a joint opinion article published in the UK’s i newspaper and South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo, entitled ‘Only global AI standards can stop a race to the bottom’.