A new report published this week by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and AI Safety Institute (AISI) highlights the rising risk of malicious use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The International AI Safety Report 2025, announced at the global AI safety summit at Bletchley Park in 2023, was written by 100 AI experts, including representatives nominated by the governments of the 30 countries, the UN, EU, and OECD.
The report addressess challenges concerning AI risks and AI safety as well as specific methods to identify and mitigate against these risks. As such, the report focusing on 3 core questions:
- What can general-purpose AI do?
- What are risks associated with general-purpose AI?
- What mitigation techniques are there against these risks?
In seeking to answer these questions, the report aims to:
- support informed policymaking by provide scientific information
- facilitate constructive and evidence-based discussion concerning the uncertainty aound general-purpose AI,
- contribute towards an internationally shared scientific, understanding of advanced AI safety.
In an interview with The Guardian, Yoshua Bengio, one of the pioneers of modern AI and Chair of the report warned that advancements by the Chinese startup DeepSeek could threaten AI safety. Bengio cautions that competition between DeepSeek and American firms could shift their focus from AI safety to maintaining market dominance. This concerns are backed up by statements this week from OpenAI, which is ramping up product releases in response to DeepSeek’s challenge.
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