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UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts
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Companies building the most advanced AI systems must increase safety efforts, the UK’s AI minister will say, as he announces a strengthening of Britain’s cyber defences.
Key facts
- It comes as Geoffrey Irving, a former chief scientist at the UK’s AI Security Institute, which tests the most powerful AI models, raised fears enemy states could steal unreleased cutting-edge models
- Last week UK intelligence leaders from MI5, MI6 and GCHQ briefed the cabinet on AI’s threat to national security, according to the Sunday Times
- It is possible we [will] get superintelligence in less than 12 months, on the current path,” he said
- Kanishka Narayan will call on companies developing frontier AI to do more to make sure it is safe
Summary
Kanishka Narayan will call on companies developing frontier AI to do more to make sure it is safe. Narayan’s speech in west London will be the first since Andy Burnham made AI a cabinet-level brief. He cited a recent incident at OpenAI where it was “hacked” by cybersecurity researchers, who said “the scope of what we could theoretically access was huge”. Irving, a former employee at OpenAI and Google DeepMind who now runs an AI safety research body, has warned there is a “50% chance” of humanity being wiped out by superintelligent AIs and the only answer, for now, is to stop development of advanced systems as soon as possible.