2nd Harnessing AI Risk Pre-Summit

TBD Late November, 2024, virtual on Zoom

The 2nd Summit has been postponed to a TBD date in late November

Nearly all states and regional IGOs and their citizens are completely powerless in the face of AI developments in the years to come. They have no way, on their own, to stave off AI risks, nor realize its astounding opportunities. 

They have no way to prevent or even meaningfully mitigate the enormous human safety risks or an immense global, unaccountable concentration of power and wealth, nor to realize its astounding potential for their citizens.

By coming together boldly and openly, in a critical mass, they can jointly build, regulate and exploit the most-capable, safe and sovereign AI, and at least attempt to bring superpowers to agree to bold global safety safeguards, as they nearly did in 1946 for nuclear technology.

Background

Following the hybrid 1st Pre-Summit, held along the G7 Side Event of the G7 Summit in Italy last June, and in anticipation of the hybrid 1st Harnessing AI Risk Summit, to be held this November 28-29th in Geneva/Zoom, the 2nd Pre-Summit will be held in Geneva/Zoom.

Current partners, advisors and members of the Team and Working Groups of the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI and the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative will engage prospective partnering states, their missions to the UN in Geneva, regional IGOs, NGOs and experts interested to join, in order to:

  • illustrate its core goals and methods, and why they are likely to foster AI safety, advance innovations in safe AI, and ensure a wide, global and democratic sharing of its control, power and benefits.

  • illustrate the massive economic and sovereignty advantages for states deriving from its planned, federal, public-private, decentralized and open Global Public Interest AI Lab.

  • discuss ways to best advance the its goals.explore how to improve its roadmap and strategy

Speakers 

  • Robert Whitfield - Chair of the Transnational Working Group on AI at the World Federalist Movement, the convenor of the Coalition for the International Criminal Court. Chair of One World Trust. 

  • Ambassador Prof. Muhammadou Kah - Chairman of the UN Commission on Science and Technology Development. Permanent Representative of the Mission of The Gambia to the UN in Geneva. Member of the Advisory Board of the Trustless Computing Association. 

  • Wendell Wallach - Co-director of the Artificial Intelligence & Equality Initiative Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Emeritus Chair of Technology and Ethics Studies at Yale University. Founder and Co-lead of the 2018-2021 International Congress for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence. 

  • Rufo Guerreschi, Convenor, Coordinator and Spokesperson of the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI. Executive Director of the Trustless Computing Association.

  • Tolga Bilge, Creator of AItreaty.org, a call for a treaty for AI, and co-author of A Narrow Path. Executive Committee Member at the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI

  • Joep Meindertsma, CEO of PauseAI, and lead author of its proposal for a strong and timely treaty for AI. Executive Committee Member at the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI

  • Felix De Simone, Outreach Director of PauseAI, Executive Committee Member at the Coalition for a Baruch Plan for AI.

Aims

Increase the number, diversity and engagement levels of states and regional IGOs - as well as experts, NGOs and leading AI labs - interested to participate in the Coalition, the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative and its Global Public Benefit AI Lab.

Agenda

  • 4.00pm - Introduction by Rufo Guerreschi

  • 4.10pm - Need for a timely, bold, democratic global governance of AI by *Tolga Bilge and TBD

  • 4.20pm - Q&A

  • 4.30pm - Need for an open, effective, expert and participatory treaty-making process by Wendell Wallach and TBD

  • 4.40pm - Q&A

  • 4.50pm - Need of an open coalition of states and NGOs by Robert Whitfield and Felix De Simone

  • 5.00pm - Q&A

  • 5.10pm - Global Public Benefit AI Lab by TBD

  • 5.20pm - Q&A

  • 5.30pm - Strategy, Roadmap and Outreach by Robert Whitfield

  • 5.40pm - Q&A

  • 5.50pm - Outreach Strategy by Joep Meindertsma and TBD

  • 6.00pm - Conclusion

Join as an Audience!

While the event will be live streamed, participation in-person and via Zoom - which includes extensive ability to ask questions and make comments - is limited to interested state representatives and donors, and to current and prospective partners of the Coalition to join the event.

To register, therefore, please consider joining the Coalition in other forms, as detailed in our offering for a states, for NGOs, expert or volunteer, and for donors.

If not, yet ready to join but are interested, apply via email to participate in the event by sending an email to your details at cbpai@trustlesscomputing.org.