Rishi Sunak will set out his views on artificial intelligence (AI) next week to an audience of technology industry insiders during a keynote speech at London Tech Week. Twenty-four hours later, the Labour leader Keir Starmer will do the same. The prime minister and Starmer have a habit of speaking at the same venue within a day of each other – they did so at the beginning of the year when setting out their competing visions for the country from the same room at the Olympic Park in east London. The fact they are doing so again but on the far more technical and detailed question of AI shows how quickly the issue has rocketed up the political agenda. "We have been working on AI policy for a long time," said one government official.

Rishi Sunak has announced that the UK will host a global summit on safety in artificial intelligence in the autumn, as fears grow that the technology's rapid advancement could spin out of control. Safety concerns are mounting after breakthroughs in generative AI, which can produce convincing text, images and even voice on command, with tech executives such as Elon Musk among the figures expressing alarm. Here is a look at what the summit might achieve. What is the aim of the summit? The prime minister has changed his tone on AI in recent weeks.

Three people were lightly wounded after a drone crashed into a residential building in Russia's Voronezh city, the regional governor said. The latest drone attack to target Russian cities in recent weeks comes as Ukraine has been intensifying its efforts to expel Russian forces from a vast swath of southern and eastern Ukraine that they invaded more than 15 months ago on orders from President Vladimir Putin. In a Telegram post, regional Governor Alexander Gusev said the three residents were hurt by shards of glass from broken windows, and received help on the spot. Russian state media published photos showing a high-rise apartment building with some windows blown out and damage to the facade. Such drone strikes – which have previously hit residential areas in southern Krasnodar and even one at the Kremlin – along with cross-border raids in southwestern Russia, have exposed glaring breaches in Russian air defences and porous border security.

Elon Musk's SpaceX recently launched the biggest and most powerful rocket into flight, even though it did make it into orbit. But the world's richest man isn't content on expanding his sci-fi inspired technology into just the cosmos. Neuralink, the tech startup co-founded by Musk, also wants to embark on a fantastic voyage into the brain. Two weeks ago, the company announced it had gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration to begin trials to implant brain chips into humans. We don't know when trials will begin, but there's plenty of buzz around Neuralink's development of a brain-computer interface.

Last year, the United States Department of Homeland Security advertised the impending "deployment" on the US-Mexico border of "robot dogs". According to a celebratory feature article published on the department's website, the goal of the programme was to "force-multiply" the presence of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) as well as to "reduce human exposure to life-threatening hazards". In case there was any doubt as to which human lives were of concern, the article specified: "The American Southwest is a region that blends a harsh landscape, temperature extremes and various other non-environmental threats that can create dangerous obstacles for those who patrol the border." There is no denying that the US-Mexico border is an inhospitable place; just ask the countless refuge seekers who have died trying to navigate it, thanks in large part to ongoing US efforts to effectively criminalise the very right to asylum. And the terrain is becoming ever more hostile with the mad dash to run the entire world on artificial intelligence, border "security" operations to boot. The proliferation of AI-reliant surveillance technology has increasingly forced undocumented people into ever more dangerous territory, where "non-environmental threats" will apparently now also include canine robots.

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The 2024 US Presidential race is heating up, and the candidates along with their supporters have a new weapon at their disposal: Artificial intelligence tools, which can easily generate realistic images and voices. As Semafor reports, the DeSantis War Room has shared images showing Donald Trump embracing Dr. Anthony Fauci, who became a controversial figure to conservatives following the COVID-19 pandemic. The short clip compares Trump as a reality TV star firing people in The Apprentice with the "real life Trump" who apparently refused to fire the doctor. While the video was marked on Twitter with a warning that says three of the still shots showing Trump embracing Fauci are "AI generated images," some people could believe they were real. DeSantis' camp didn't deny that they weren't real photos, but it didn't explicitly say that either.

Bluestack Strategies founder and Principal Maura Gillespie and former Manchin Communications Director Jonathan Kott discuss the 2024 presidential primaries, the growing list of Republican candidates and voter concerns over President Biden's age. The Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis camps are trading blows after the Florida governor's 2024 campaign debuted an AI-generated image depicting the former president hugging Dr. Anthony Fauci. It's also further fueling concerns about how AI "deepfakes" of altered video, photos or audio portraying candidates saying and doing things they did not could affect the 2024 campaign. This stunt had the'please clap' energy of Ron DeSanctimonious' mentor, Jeb Bush," a Trump campaign adviser told Fox News Digital of the images. One of Trump's most vocal allies in the Senate, freshman Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, tweeted on Thursday, "Smearing Donald Trump with fake AI images is completely unacceptable.

Presidential campaigns are already using content generated by artificial intelligence. Some senators said they're concerned how the development will impact the 2024 election. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Artificial intelligence's ability to trick voters creates a significant threat for the 2024 elections, several senators told Fox News. "On a scale of one to 10, I would put my fear at 10 so far as the potential abuses for impersonation, false visual images, deepfakes, voice cloning," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, told Fox News. "Consumers deserve to know when the deepfakes and cloned voices occur."

Experts discuss what is at stake in the AI race between the United States and China, warning it could'dictate the future of humanity.' The United States government and private sector should strike a balance between regulation and investment in artificial intelligence in order to retain a technological edge over China, experts advised. Gordon Chang, the author of "The Coming Collapse of China," advised a prohibition on investment into Chinese companies, given the country's government-down approach to military and technological developments. "We have to recognize the comprehensiveness of the Chinese system and cut trade and investment with China," Chang said. "If we do that, China does not have a chance of competing with the United States because we're a far stronger society."