UK takes bold measures to enhance AI security for national safety
Safeguarding Britain’s national security and protecting citizens from crime will become founding principles of the UK’s approach to AI security from today. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference and just days after the conclusion of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Peter Kyle has today recast the AI Safety Institute the ‘AI Security Institute’. This new name will reflect its focus on serious AI risks with security implications, such as how the technology can be used to develop chemical and biological weapons and how it can be used to carry out cyber-attacks and enable crimes. The Institute will also partner across government, including with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation, to assess the risks posed by frontier AI. New approaches to tackle the criminal use of AI As part of this update, the Institute will also launch a new criminal misuse team which will work jointly with the Home Office to conduct research on a range of crime and AI security issues which threaten to harm British …