"Shh!" Secret Meeting of the World's Elite... This Year's Theme is 'AI'
US-Europe Secret Annual Meeting Bilderberg Conference
AI Company CEOs Including Sam Altman Attend in Large Numbers
This Year's First Topic 'AI'... Reflecting Its Importance
CEOs of artificial intelligence (AI) companies are set to gather at the secretive annual meeting of global elites, the "Bilderberg Meeting," where key issues in the international economy are discussed. The first agenda item at this year's Bilderberg Meeting is also related to AI.
On the 18th (local time), US CNBC reported that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft; and Demis Hassabis, founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, will attend this year's Bilderberg Meeting.
The Bilderberg Meeting is a conference where 100 to 150 elites from the political and business sectors of the US and Europe gather to discuss major issues in the international community.
It was first established in 1945 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands to promote dialogue between intellectuals from Europe and the United States. The first meeting was held in 1954 at the Bilderberg Hotel in the Netherlands, and it has continued to this day.
The most distinctive feature of the Bilderberg Meeting is the strict confidentiality maintained under the "Chatham House Rule," which prevents the content of the meetings from leaking to the outside. Because of this, information about the meetings only began to become public relatively recently, in the 1970s.
According to CNBC, this year's meeting will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 18th to the 21st. The first agenda item is AI, followed by banking systems, China, energy transition, Europe, fiscal issues, and India.
In addition to AI company CEOs, many prominent figures will attend, including former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer.
Meanwhile, the impact and risks of large AI models have become a major concern for governments of key countries. Earlier, on the 16th, the US Congress held its first-ever AI-related hearing to discuss the need for regulation.
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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, also appeared at the hearing, urging that "AI can provide false information to people through persuasion and manipulation," and called for "the creation of international standards for regulation."
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