November 3, 2023 AI Safety Summit Diary: What’s next after the AI Safety Summit? Author(s): Gina Neff Our Future of Work panel at the AI Fringe! | Credit Gina Neff In this latest AI Safety Summit diary, Gina Neff explores her conversations on Day 4 of the AI Fringe. On Thursday morning, I headed over to the AI Fringe, where I took part in a panel on AI and the future of work. This was a wonderful conversation about making the future work with Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, Founder and CEO of Stemettes, Dr Abigail Gilbert, Director of Praxis, IFOW, Wilson Wong, Head of Insight and Futures, CIPD and Rebecca Thomas, Work Lead, Equality and Human Rights Commission. We drilled down on how AI will change the skills needed over the next decade. One of the things that we focused on was the need for infrastructure—both social and technical—to support how AI works. Currently there are enormous regional differences, skills differences and ‘readiness’ gaps. As Wilson Wong put it, people and companies are asking themselves now ‘Is all of this up to me?’ Without meaningful regulation, the risks of frontier models is a burden on ‘us’. Sai-bot, a project of Tobias Gutmann an artist who used to pretend to be a computer to make portraits, and developer Dazlus, who trained a generative AI model to make portraits based on Tobias’ style. After our panel, we tried out Sai-bot, a project of Tobias Gutmann an artist who used to pretend to be a computer to make portraits, and developer Dazlus, who trained a generative AI model to make portraits based on Tobias’ style. I love mine — what do you all think? In the green room, I caught Anna Thomas and Chloe Smith MP after their fireside chat at Fringe where we agreed that policymakers need clear, brief policy steers on these issues, especially as they relate to the UK context. Behind the scenes with Anna Thomas and MP Chloe Smith in the green room after their fireside chat at Fringe | Credit Gina Neff I then had time to catch up with Tabitha Goldstaub MBE, Executive Director of Innovate Cambridge, and Jon Lenson, CEO of Milltown Partners, the company who organised the Fringe (Jon is also a Cambridge alum). Lots of good energy around what is happening in the Cambridge responsible AI ecosystem now. Appropriate, because then I had to jump on a train to Cambridge. Today, I was inducted as a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Magdalene College (The College of St Mary Magdalene), is located in the centre of Cambridge beside the River Cam. The College has its origins in the year 1428. The ceremony was in the chapel, with an organ accompanist, and all the fellows in academic dress, the flowing gowns that can make Cambridge feel like Hogwarts. The head of the College officially admitted me to the College with flourish in Latin. In true college fashion, I had a great conversation over lunch with an emeritus plant ecology fellow. I am so excited to be joining this esteemed academic community. I then had a quick meeting with my wonderful team at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, before heading back to London. But what’s next after the AI Summit? Molly Welch Radical Ventures, Gina Neff and Dorothy Chou, Head of Policy, Google DeepMind| Credit Gina Neff In the evening I was invited by Aaron Rosenberg, Partner, Radical Ventures & Dorothy Chou, Head of Policy, Google DeepMind to dinner. Here, a small group of leaders in AI policy who attended the AI Summit and Fringe met to discuss progress and plans from here. I had great conversations with Dorothy Chou, and Molly Welch from Radical Ventures. I also met with Nicolas Moës ,The Future Society, Andrew Strait, Associate Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Aidan Peppin, Milltown Partners (and one of the forces behind this week’s Fringe summit), and Deb Raji from University of California Berkeley. We all agreed that the Summit and the Fringe show how much work there is to be done. Read all posts from my AI Safety Summit Diary: Wednesday 25 October – AI Safety Summit Diary: the lead-up Thursday 26 October – AI Safety Summit Diary: A Prime Ministerial visit Monday 30 October- AI Safety Summit Diary: How do we ensure responsible AI? Tuesday 31 October – AI Safety Summit Diary: The Summit approaches… Wednesday 1 November – AI Safety Summit Diary: The here and now: The impact of AI on our lives Thursday 2 November – AI Safety Summit Diary: What’s next after the AI Safety Summit? Friday 3 November – AI Safety Summit Diary: How do we build a responsible and trustworthy international AI ecosystem?