The first conference on the subject was at Dartmouth in 1956 (see
Dartmouth Conference) and the second one was
NeurIPS in 1987. They were followed by the NVIDIA conference in 2009, which today draws 20 thousand and more attendees (see
GTC conference). The Ai4 conference began in 2018, and an AI safety conference was held in the U.K. in 2023 (see
Ai4 conference and
AI Safety Summit). The latest conference to focus on AI was held in Las Vegas in 2025 (see
HumanX).