Held from June 14-17, St. Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, took part in the program of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). The newspaper writes about it Finance Times.
It was stated that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also attended the event, which was held for a discussion on artificial intelligence. “Schmidt has not received an invitation and is not going to SPIEF,” a source familiar with the situation told the broadcast.
The SPIEF program also included US artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkovsky, Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev and British scientist Stephen Wolfram. All three attended the forum to FT journalists and went to St. He assured them that they would not come to St. Petersburg.
In 2022 St. Organizers of the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg announced The participation of representatives of 115 countries and regions in the event. Then the heads of the DPR and LPR, delegations from Turkey, Egypt, Afghanistan and Syria, and participants from Ethiopia and Mali were supposed to come to the forum.
Bloomberg reported that business people from France, Italy, Canada and the USA have registered for SPIEF 2022.