Drop China from AI Summit, Says UK’s Former PM
Liz Truss, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the UK, lashed out against her successor Rishi Sunak for inviting Beijing officials to the upcoming Bletchley Park summit.
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“China should not be invited to the UK's AI Summit at Bletchley Park. We should be working with our allies, not those seeking to subvert freedom and democracy. I have written to the Prime Minister requesting that the invitation be rescinded,” she wrote on X (Twitter).
She also attached a letter where she says that she’s deeply disturbed to learn that China has been invited to the summit as the country uses the technology to aid its oppression of millions and attacks on democracy and freedom.
“The regime in Beijing has a fundamentally different attitude to the West and AI, seeing it as a means of state control and a tool for national security,” she writes.
“These and other concerns were a significant factor in the decision by the now Deputy PM in 2020, when he was Digital Secretary, to remove all Huawei equipment from the UK’s 5G networks. That was the correct call and should have informed the decision about invitations to the Bletchley Park summit,” she writes, adding that China will not abide by anything “given their cavalier attitude to law.”
Current PM Sunak, however, believes that inviting Chinese officials is the right thing to do, though they will not be invited to a meeting on the safety and security risks from AI.
Truss is a former Prime Minister who briefly served in office in 2022. She’s known for her strong character and anti-Russian and anti-Chinese stance.
The summit is slated to take place on the 1st and 2nd November . Its goal is to explore and build consensus on rapid, international action to guarantee safety and security at the frontier of AI technology.
“The UK has long been home to the transformative technologies of the future, so there is no better place to host the first ever global AI safety summit than at Bletchley Park this November,” Sunak said.
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