November 7, 2023 Results of Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, KOMORI Takuo’s Participation in AI Safety Summit in the UK

On Wednesday, November 1, and Thursday, November 2, 2023, the AI Safety Summit was held in Bletchley Park, UK. Governments, relevant international organizations, private companies, researchers, and others participated to discuss AI safety and other issues.

1. Dates

Wednesday, November 1, and Thursday, November 2, 2023

2. Main participants

[Governments]
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Korea, Philippines, Rwanda, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, UAE, and United States [International organizations]
Council of Europe, European Commission, Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and United Nations [Private companies]
Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, ARM, Cohere, Google DeepMind, Google, IBM, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, Naver, Nvidia, OpenAI, Salesforce, Samsung Electronics, Sony, Tencent, etc.

Many others from academia and civil society also participated.

3. Outline of the event

The United Kingdom has launched the AI Safety Summit this year as a meeting on the safe development and use of AI technologies in light of the rapid development of AI. The Summit was held at both the heads of state and ministerial levels to promote understanding of the risks of advanced AI, particularly in its development, and to discuss ways to mitigate these risks through coordinated international action.
From MIC, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, KOMORI Takuo attended the ministerial-level meeting, the agenda of which included building a common understanding of frontier AI risks and future cooperation and sharing global opportunities in AI. He contributed to the discussions by sharing efforts to realize a society without language barriers through the use of VoiceTra, a multilingual voice translation application developed by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

4. Overview of bilateral talks

Taking advantage of the opportunity of this meeting, Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications KOMORI Takuo held bilateral talks with the following ministers and others to deepen dialogue on policy issues shared with each party, including how to proceed with the Hiroshima AI process in the future.

• UK: H.E. Michel Donnellan, Minister for Science, Research, Technology and Innovation
         H.E. Viscount Camrose, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Department for Science
• Italy: Adolfo Urso, Minister for Business and Made in Italy
• United States: Nathaniel Fick, Ambassador at Large for Cyberspace and Digital Policy
• Australia: Ed Husick, Minister for Industry and Science