Rishi Sunak Says Risk to UK From AI is on Same Scale as Threat of Nuclear War

Hosting an artificial intelligence summit, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has compared the risk from AI as being on a par with the danger of nuclear war.

Four X accounts apparently generated by artificial intelligence software, displayed on a laptop in Helsinki on June 12, 2023. Olivier Morin/AFP

The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has compared the risk to mankind from artificial intelligence (AI) as being on a par with nuclear war or another global pandemic.

But as he arrived for the second day of the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park—the former home of the Enigma codebreakers in World War Two—he said it was important not to be “alarmist.”