The document, whose signatories also include Brazil and Chile, highlights “the urgent need to collectively understand and manage the potential risks” of AI.

Given the growing potential of models like ChatGPT, Bletchley's statement shows that they are coming together to identify the problem and highlight its opportunities.

Two international summits on AI will take place subsequently, one in South Korea - within six months - and another in France, within a year, added the minister from the emblematic center where the Nazi secret codes were deciphered in the Second War World.

Parallel to the meeting, US Vice President Kamala Harris must announce in a speech in London the creation of an institute on the security of artificial intelligence in Washington.

This structure – similar to the one also announced by the United Kingdom – will bring together experts to establish “directives” and evaluate the most advanced AI models to “identify and mitigate” risks, according to the White House.

Generative AIs - capable of producing text, sounds or images in a matter of seconds - have progressed exponentially in recent years and the next generations of these models will appear in the summer.

They carry great hopes for the fields of medicine and education, but they could also destabilize societies, allow the manufacture of weapons or elude human control, warns the British government.

After this first day dedicated to the potential dangers of more advanced AI, high-level political representatives are expected at Bletchley Park on Thursday.

Among them, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, and the head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni.

American billionaire and star entrepreneur Elon Musk, present at the summit on Wednesday, will exchange with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday evening.

“Our goal is to establish a framework for better understanding (...), and so that there is at least one independent arbiter who can look at what AI companies are doing and raise the alarm if something worries him,” Musk told the press.

“My hope for this summit is that there is an international consensus on the initial understanding of advanced AI,” he added.

In an open letter published on Tuesday, several of the “founding fathers” of this technology, such as Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, advocated for “the development and ratification of an international treaty on AI,” to reduce “potentially catastrophic” risks. that advanced systems weigh on humanity.”

The challenge is to establish safeguards without hindering innovation for AI labs and tech giants.

The EU and the United States, unlike the United Kingdom, chose the path of regulation.

Last week, several companies such as OpenAI, Meta (Facebook) or DeepMind (Google) agreed to make public some of their AI security policies at the request of the United Kingdom.

In an open letter addressed to Rishi Sunak, a hundred international organizations, experts and activists regretted that this summit is being held behind “closed doors”, dominated by technology giants and with limited access for civil society.