Plans by the U.K. to host a global artificial intelligence summit, first mooted in June, have reportedly progressed, as the event is now expected to be held in the fall.

The idea for the summit, which came from U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, is to bring together countries, tech companies and researchers to discuss safety measures for mitigating risks from AI. One of the key aims of the conference will be to discuss the development and application of an international framework to ensure safe and reliable AI usage, amid ongoing concerns about the potential dangers of AI to humanity.

Bloomberg reported late Tuesday that the summit is being supported by U.S. President Joe Biden. The president and other members of the group of seven countries, along with OpenAI LP Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella, Anthropic PBC’s Dario Amodei and DeepMind Technologies Inc. CEO Demis Hassabis are expected to be invited to the event.

The summit is planned to be held at Bletchley Park, famous for being the location where British code-breakers, including Alan Turning, cracked Germany’s Engima encryption during World War II. Bletchley Park is also located between Oxford and Cambridge Universities, where much of the country’s leading AI research is taking place today.

Although the plans for the AI summit are mostly going well, Bloomberg claims there’s debate on whether to invite China to the event. There is concern that China’s differing views on regulation mean that it will be hard to reach an agreement on a global framework for AI regulation.

Some of the proposed regulations that will likely be discussed at the summit include as yet-unspecific AI “guardrails.” The U.K. is said to be considering setting a threshold of computing power above which AI chips would be regulated. Watermarking content generated by AI is also said to be an area for discussion.

Another possible agenda item includes where and how to monitor who is buying powerful chips from semiconductor companies such as Nvidia Corp. Perhaps with little surprise, the U.S. is concerned about the transfer of Western technology to China.

Further details about the AI summit, including the confirmed date, time and location, are expected to be released in the coming weeks.

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