The UK’s AI summit is taking place at Bletchley Park, the wartime home of codebreaking and computing


An exterior view shows the mansion house at Bletchley Park museum where the movie ‘The Imitation Game’ is set and where some scenes were filmed in the town of Bletchley in Buckinghamshire, England, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will host a two-day summit focused on frontier AI. It's reportedly expected to be draw a group of about 100 officials from 28 countries, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and executives from key U.S. artificial intelligence companies including OpenAI, Google's DeepMind and Anthropic. — AP

LONDON: The United Kingdom is hosting the AI Safety Summit, bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to a site chosen for its symbolism: Bletchley Park, synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing.

During World War II, a group of mathematicians, cryptographers, crossword puzzlers, chess masters and other experts gathered at the Victorian country house 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of London to wage a secret war against Nazi Germany. Their goal: cracking Adolf Hitler’s supposedly unbreakable codes.

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