| 2024 AI Seoul Summit | |
|---|---|
| Host country | South Korea and the United Kingdom |
| Date | May 21–22, 2024 |
| Website | aiseoulsummit |
The 2024AI Seoul Summit was co-hosted by the South Korean and British governments. The Seoul Declaration was adopted to addressartificial intelligence technology and related challenges and opportunities.[1]
The AI Seoul Summit is the second such meeting following theAI Safety Summit held in the United Kingdom in November 2023. In the Bletchley Declaration, the participating countries agreed to prioritize identifyingAI safety risks of shared concern, a shared concern, but at the Seoul Summit, the leaders also recognized the importance of AI.[2]
The summit was attended by the leaders ofGroup of Seven countries, including the United States, Canada, France, and Germany, South Korea, Singapore and Australia, representatives of the United Nations, theOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the European Union.[1]
Also in attendance were representatives of global companies such asTesla CEOElon Musk,Samsung Electronics ChairmanLee Jae-yong,ChatGPT makerOpenAI, Google,Microsoft, Meta, and South Korea's top portal operatorNaver.[1]
"South Korea will push forward with the establishment of an AI safety research center in Korea and join a network to boost the global safety of AI."
Minister of Science,Lee Jong-ho said that South Korea was planning to open anAI Safety Institute in 2024.[3] He also expressed his intention to strengthen cooperation for the development of international standards.[4]
The Seoul Declaration was adopted at the summit by leaders representing the EU, the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore.[5][6] The declaration is a commitment to foster international cooperation to help develop AI governance frameworks that are interoperable between countries, partly by integrating the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct for Organizations Developing Advanced AI Systems. It advocates for the development of human-centric AI in collaboration with the private sector, academia, and civil society.[5]
At the ministerial meeting of the summit, the Seoul Ministerial Statement, a joint statement calling for the improvement of the safety, innovation, and inclusivity of AI technologies, was adopted by ministers from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US, as well as an EU representative.[7] It aims to develop low-power chips as the AI industry rapidly expands and massive consumption is expected.[8]
