AI Fringe 2024

The AI Fringe returned to mark the AI Seoul Summit with a half-day live event at the Knowledge Centre at the British Library in London.

We brought together a diverse range of voices from the UK, the Republic of Korea and France to reflect on the priorities and outcomes from the Seoul Summit: AI safety, innovation and inclusivity. The morning featured keynote addresses, fireside conversations and panel discussions with prominent participants from the Summit, as well as commentators from civil society, academia, government and industry.

It was an opportunity to reflect on how the global AI safety and responsibility conversation has evolved over the course of the Bletchley and Seoul Summits, and to pass the baton to France, which will be hosting the next AI Safety summit in early 2025.

Speakers

Francine Bennett

Interim Director, Ada Lovelace Institute

Lord Tim Clement-Jones

Liberal Democrat House of Lords Science, Innovation and Technology spokesperson; Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI

Polly Curtis

Chief Executive, Demos

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant

Head of Safety, Cohere

Resham Kotecha

Global Head of Policy, The Open Data Institute

Vincent Manancourt

Senior Technology Reporter, Politico

Professor Gina Neff

Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge

Sam Pettit

UK Public Policy Manager, Google DeepMind

Daniel Privitera

Founder and Executive Director, KIRA Center

Henri Verdier

Ambassador for Digital Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France

Greg Williams

Deputy Global Editorial Director, Wired UK

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AI Fringe 2024

Marking the AI Seoul Summit with a half-day live event at the Knowledge Centre at the British Library in London.

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Perspectives from the AI Fringe 2023

The AI Fringe brought together diverse views from across civil society, academia and industry – including those historically underrepresented – to engage in the discussion about AI safety and aimed to showcase the UK’s thriving ecosystem, as well as enhance understanding of AI and its impacts.

The views from the 2023 event were captured in the Perspectives paper as a means of contributing to and continuing the discussion about responsible AI development and deployment that happened at the Fringe.

The perspectives represented in this paper are drawn from a range of organisations across civil society, industry and academia, as well as from a group of citizens who comprised the People’s Panel on AI. There was never an expectation that these perspectives would align completely, but there are many areas of agreement and consensus to be found - which we've articulated here in the spirit of informing further conversations.

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