Reuters Elon Musk and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are to do an interview together on Thursday evening. The tech billionaire is expected to attend the global summit on artificial intelligence ahead of this meeting. The summit, at Bletchley Park, hopes to bring together AI experts and global leaders to discuss the potential risks of artificial intelligence. US Vice-President Kamala Harris and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are due to attend. The BBC also understands Open AI's Sam Altman and Meta's Nick Clegg will join the gathering - as well as a host of other tech leaders. At least two of the so-called godfathers of AI will be attending. Yoshua Bengio has confirmed to the BBC he will be there. It is also understood that Prof Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, will be there. In contrast to the other godfathers Mr LeCun has described fears that AI could pose a threat to humanity as "ridiculously preposterous" and has posted critically about the summit on X (formerly Twitter). Revolutionary but dangerous In a post on X, Mr Sunak said: "In conversation with Elon Musk. After the AI Safety Summit. Thursday night on X." It was revealed on Monday that X, which Mr Musk acquired for $44bn (£36bn), is now worth $19bn, according to internal correspondence first reported by Fortune. Mr Musk launched his own AI venture, xAI in June. He was also one of the original backers of OpenAI but parted ways with the firm. There is a chance that Rishi Sunak is walking into a lion's den here in agreeing to a live-streamed conversation with Elon Musk on Musk's own platform, X. Musk has not yet been vocal about the UK's new Online Safety Act, which has only just gained Royal Assent, but X is firmly in scope to be bound by its laws and that may not sit well with the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist". What Musk says and what he actually does are not always in harmony: he has called for a pause on AI development but also registered his own AI company and has reportedly been buying large quantities of the specialist chips required. He will has strong views of his own on how AI should progress. He has a large audience but he's also not an elected individual, in any country, and arguably no government or global coalition should be too much in thrall.