EU leaders gather for first ever AI summit

The summit comes as worries about the artificial intelligence's global impact mount and Europe seeks a role in its development and regulation. European Union leaders are meeting in Dublin on Friday at the first ever summit on artificial intelligence (AI) . The meeting comes at a critical moment, as the bloc seeks a unified policy on the rapidly evolving technology .

The meeting is taking place in Dublin's Convention Center, which was also the meting place of the European Political Community summit this week. French AI company Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch, as well as Nobel-prize winner and researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the "godfather of AI," are expected to speak to EU leaders at the summit. The summit will take place a time of mounting worries about the emerging technology, which promises to transform ‌industries, labor markets and societies.

It also comes in the wake of a series of incidents involving rogue AI agents in recent months and the wider discussion about how the technology could harm humanity. Tech leaders behind the technology have also fallen under scrutiny.