Elon Musk coming to Rishi Sunak’s AI summit

LONDON — Tech tycoon Elon Musk will attend the U.K.’s artificial intelligence summit this week, Rishi Sunak has confirmed.

A U.K. official familiar with summit planning said the X and Tesla boss is expected to attend both days, as well as a separate reception on Thursday after the summit.

Musk will take part in a conversation with the U.K. prime minister “after the AI summit,” according to a message posted on Sunak’s official X, formerly Twitter, account on Monday evening.

The AI summit — which will focus on risks and mitigations for the cutting-edge tech — is set to take place on Wednesday and Thursday at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire.

Attendees for the gathering are being closely watched. French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and U.S. President Biden won’t be attending but are sending delegates. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are confirmed.

Musk has previously urged caution over AI, signing a letter warning “AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity.”