How the UK took a global lead in AI safety

06/12/2024 | Politico

A report in Politico looks at how the UK under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to the global stage concerning the risks to national security posed by frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models. The article traces the UK's role from early meetings with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to the Bletchly Summit and the launch of the UK AI Safety Institute (AISI). Now under a new Labour government, Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, has publicly vowed to introduce legislation that would put the AISI on a statutory footing. 

While we await to see whether the incoming Trump administration will roll back many of the Biden era safeguards as pledged, Politico concludes that for all the headwinds, the UK's early work could prove vital if some of those threats start to be realised.

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