Half of the industry representatives at the AI Safety Summit hail from the US, the government’s published attendee list shows, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak looks to make the UK the “geographical home of global AI safety regulation”.
The full guest list for the two-day summit shows 40 “industry and related organisations” attending, with 20 of those headquartered in the US.
From that list of 40, there are 34 technology companies, with the remaining six including trade bodies such as techUK.
Analysis by UKTN shows that 18 of the 34 technology companies are larger established firms, ranging from publicly listed cybersecurity firm Darktrace to US tech giants such as Meta and Google.
The remaining 16 tech companies are startups and scaleups, but skew towards older and larger firms. They include Germany’s defence tech startup Helsing, founded in 2021, and the UK’s Faculty AI, founded in 2014....