Rishi Sunak will this week meet the boss of Google for additional talks about the way forward for synthetic intelligence (AI) amid a raging debate in regards to the threats posed by the expertise.

Sky News has learnt that the prime minister and Sundar Pichai, Google's chief government, will maintain a personal assembly on Friday.

A Downing Street supply mentioned the assembly could be centered on AI-related challenges, though it was additionally anticipated to handle different points together with the UK as an funding setting for main tech corporations.

Mr Sunak has already held talks this week with tech bosses together with the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

A joint assertion issued after Wednesday's assembly mentioned: "The PM made clear that AI is the defining expertise of our time, with the potential to positively rework humanity.

"But the success of this technology is founded on having the right guardrails in place, so that the public can have confidence that AI is used in a safe and responsible way.

"The PM set out how the strategy to AI regulation might want to maintain tempo with the fast-moving advances on this expertise."

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The explosive progress of AI and its a number of functions has sparked fears about its use within the unfold of misinformation and the dangers it might pose to nationwide safety.

In an article revealed within the Financial Times this week, Mr Pichai mentioned AI was "the most profound technology humanity is working on today".

He referred to AI's use in laboratories cataloguing proteins "opening up new healthcare possibilities" and its means to assist "thousands of Ukrainian refugees… communicate in their new homes".

"I still believe AI is too important not to regulate, and too important not to regulate well," he wrote.

Calling for elevated worldwide cooperation on the problem, Mr Pichai mentioned: "AI presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the world to reach its climate goals, build sustainable growth, maintain global competitiveness and much more. Yet we are still in the early days, and there's a lot of work ahead.

"We look ahead to doing that work with others, and collectively constructing AI safely and responsibly so that everybody can profit."

Google employs about 7,000 individuals within the UK.

Neither Google nor Downing Street would verify that Friday's assembly would happen.

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