Looking at the actual (published, not so secret) list of participants, I think it's interesting that:

- some people are included who I think most people think of in terms of what they _used_ to do (e.g. Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt)

- though it's under the Chatham House rule and is being called "secretive", they have a number of journalists / news editors on the list

- though AI is on the agenda, this year (unlike some prior years) it doesn't look like they have any actual AI researchers qua researchers. Demis Hassabis is on the list, but given the rest of the list, one suspects its for his CEO/leadership role rather than as a researcher specifically. In previous years, Bengio and Lecun have been involved. And this year there are professors / fellows, but all in econ or public policy fields.

https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2023/par...