Twenty-eight countries sign the Bletchley Declaration on AI

The United Kingdom held the first AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park on 1 and 2 November 2023. Representatives of 28 countries and the European Union, along with the major AI companies, signed the Bletchley Declaration on developing and using AI safely and responsibly.

Why it mattered Governments that compete with one another had agreed in writing, without binding themselves to anything, that frontier AI was a shared governance problem. Later summits started from that text.