UK publishes inaugural Frontier AI Trends Report
18/12/2025 | UK Government
New research by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) provides a comprehensive analysis of the capabilities of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems based on two years of rigorous testing in critical fields such as cybersecurity, chemistry, and biology.
The Frontier AI Trends Report provides substantial evidence of the evolving nature of AI technologies. As such, the report reveals significant improvements in AI safeguards, with a notable 40-fold increase in the time required to identify safety loopholes, now taking hours rather than minutes under previous model generations.
The findings indicate that AI systems are advancing rapidly, with success rates in cybersecurity apprentice-level tasks increasing from under 9% in 2023 to around 50% by 2025. In other tasks, AI models have begun to match human experts in software engineering and exceed PhD-level researchers in scientific knowledge testing.
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