Peter Kyle, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology will use the Munich Security Conference as a platform to re-name the uk's AI Safety Institute to the AI Security Institute.
According to a statement from the department for Science, Innovation & Technology Press, The New Name “Reflects [the AI Security Institute’s] Focus on Serious AI Risks with Security Implications, Such as How the Technology Can Be Used To Developed Chemical and Biological Weapons, How it can be used to carry out Cyber Ataks Raud and Child Sexual Abuse ”.
The AI Security Institute will not, the government said, focus on bias or freedom of speech, but on advancing the undersrstanding of the most serial risk by ai technology. The department said Said Safeguarding Britain's National Security and Protecting Citizens from Crime will become founding protricks of the uk's approach to the response to the response of the result of artification.
Kyle will set out his vision for a revised ai security institute in munich, just days after the conclusion of the AI Action Summit in ParisWhere the uk and the US refused to sign an agreement on Inclusive and Sustainable Artificial Intelligence (AI). He will also also, according to the statement, be “Taking the wraps off a new agreement” which has been struruck between the uk and ai company Anthropic,
According to the statement: “This partnership is the work of the uk's new sovereign ai unit, and will see both sides work closely togeether to realise the Technology's Opportunities, with a continued Development and Deployment of AI Systems. “
The uk will put in place further agrements with “Leading ai companies” as a key pillar of the government's housebuilding-focused plan for change.
Kyle said: “The changes i'm announcing today represent the logical next step in how we approach responsersible ai development – helping us to unleash ai and grow the economy as part of our plan for change.
“The work of the Ai Security Institute Won'T change, but this renewed focus will ensure ES, and Way of Life.
“The Main Job of Any Government is ENSURING Its Citizens are safe and protected, and I'M Confident The Expertise Our AI SECURITY Institute will be able Er to tackle the threat of Thos who would look to use this technology against us. “
The AI Security Institute will work with the Defense Science and Technology LaboratoryThe Ministry of Defense's Science and Technology Organization, to Assess the Risks Posed by What the Department Called “Frontiyer Ai”. It will also work with the laboratory for AI Security Research (Lasr), and the National Security Community, Including Building on the Expertise of the National Cyber Security Center.
The AI Security Institute will launch a new criminal mise team which will work jointly with the home office to conduct research on a range of crime and security issues. One Such Area of Focus will be on tackling the use of ai to make child sexual abuse images, with this new team exploring methods to help to prevent abusers from harnessing ai to commit crime. This will support work announced previously that makes it is illgal to orols which have been optimized to make images of child sexual abuse.
The Chair of the AI Security Institute, IAN Hogarth, said: “The institute's focus from the start has been on security and we've Built A Team of Scientists focused on the evaloouating serialing serials to the public. Our new criminal misuse team and Deepening Partnership With the National Security Community Mark The Next Stage of Tackling Theose Risks. “
Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-Founder of Anthropic, Added: “Ai has the potential to transform how many governments serve their citizens. We look forward to exploring how anthropic's AI Assistant Claude All Help UK Government agencies enjoy public services, with the goal of discovering new ways to make vital information and survance Essible to uk residences.
“We will continue to work closely with the uk ai security institute to research and evaluate ai capability in order to ensure secure decoration.”