{{Short description|AI conference in California}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2025}} thumb|alt=Group photo of Asilomar Conference participants|Participants at the Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI
The '''Asilomar Conference on Beneficial AI''' was a conference organized by the Future of Life Institute,<ref name="aiethics">{{Cite web |last=Losey |first=Ralph |date=August 11, 2017 |title=Future of Life Institute 2017 Asilomar Conference |url=https://ai-ethics.com/2017/08/11/future-of-life-institute-2017-asilomar-conference/ |access-date=July 31, 2025 |website=AI Ethics |language=en}}</ref> held January 5–8, 2017, at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. More than 100 thought leaders and researchers in economics, law, ethics, and philosophy met at the conference, to address and formulate principles of beneficial AI.<ref name="kurz">{{Cite web |title=Beneficial AI conference develops Asilomar AI principles to guide future AI research|work=The Kurzweil Library |url=https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/beneficial-ai-conference-develops-asilomar-ai-principles-to-guide-future-ai-research |access-date=July 31, 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref> Its outcome was the creation of a set of guidelines for AI research – the 23 Asilomar AI Principles.<ref name="principles23">{{Cite web |title=Asilomar AI Principles |url=https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/ai-principles/ |access-date=September 24, 2024 |website=Future of Life Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>
The 23 principles, published as an open letter, received signatures from 1797 AI–Robotics researchers and 3923 others. Notable signatures included: Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, executive director of the ACLU Anthony D. Romero, Dutch politician Kees Verhoeven, British tech entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub, American filmmaker James Barrat, CEO of Google Deepmind Demis Hassabis, AI researchers Ilya Sutskever, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, and Stuart Russell, philosophers Sam Harris and Will MacAskill, and actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, amongst others.<ref>{{Cite web |first1=Kevin |last1=Truong |first2=Joshua |last2=Bote |date=November 18, 2023 |title=How OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Was Fired by Rival Board Members |url=https://sfstandard.com/2023/11/17/openai-sam-altman-firing-board-members/ |access-date=September 24, 2024 |website=The San Francisco Standard |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuthbertson |first=Anthony |date=January 31, 2017 |title=Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Warn of AI Arms Race |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ai-asilomar-principles-artificial-intelligence-elon-musk-550525 |access-date=September 24, 2024 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref><ref name="principles23" />
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==Further reading== *{{cite web |last1=Alexander |first1=Scott |title=Notes From The Asilomar Conference On Beneficial AI |url=https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/06/notes-from-the-asilomar-conference-on-beneficial-ai/ |website=Slate Star Codex |date=February 7, 2017}} *{{cite book |last1=Olivér |first1=Gábor |title=Critique of the Asilomar AI Principles |date=2022 |doi=10.15170/COTAAP-2022 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oliver-Gabor/publication/359564353_CRITIQUE_OF_THE_ASILOMAR_AI_PRINCIPLES_AZ_ASILOMARI_ELVEK_KRITIKAJA/links/62451c6f8068956f3c5a7549/CRITIQUE-OF-THE-ASILOMAR-AI-PRINCIPLES-AZ-ASILOMARI-ELVEK-KRITIKAJA.pdf |publisher=GeniaNet |isbn=978-615-5687-04-4}} *{{cite web |last1=Nazir |first1=Saddat |title=The Asilomar Conference and Contemporary AI Controversies: Lessons in Regulation |url=https://hir.harvard.edu/the-asilomar-conference-and-contemporary-ai-controversies-lessons-in-regulation/ |website=Harvard International Review |date=June 27, 2024}} *{{cite book |last1=Inshakova |first1=Agnessa O. |last2=Deryugina |first2=Tatiana V. |last3=Matytsin |first3=Denis E. |last4=Kochetkova |first4=Svetlana Yu. |display-authors=2 |editor1-last=Inshakova |editor1-first=Agnessa |editor2-last=Matytsin |editor2-first=Denis |editor3-last=Baltutite |editor3-first=Iolanta |display-editors=1 |chapter=Asilomar Principles for the Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in the IT Sector of the Economy |title=LegalTech and Legal-AI in Business |date=2025 |volume=276 |series=Intelligent Systems Reference Library |pages=3–13 |doi=10.1007/978-3-031-93474-2_1 |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93474-2_1 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-031-93473-5}}
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