Britain steps up its defences against AI risks

The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine government organisations in a month for £13,000 in tokens.

Britain will expand a programme that points frontier AI models at the government’s own code to find flaws. It will also look at legislating for AI incident reporting and for systems that escape human oversight.

The package came on Monday from the Cabinet Office, the AI Security Institute, the National Cyber Security Centre and the culture department, according to the announcement.

Kanishka Narayan, who in July became the first AI minister to attend cabinet, set it out at Imperial College London. He wants Britain to be “one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence“.

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