The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of “AI safety” and “AI fairness” and prioritizes “reducing ideological bias” in models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
The UK recasting its AI Safety Institute as an AI Security Institute, without bias concerns, followed JD Vance's speech criticizing “hand-wringing about safety”
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The UK renames its AI Safety Institute to AI Security Institute, in a pivot to cybersecurity, and is exploring ways to use Anthropic's Claude in public services
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that …
An in-depth look at the UK's AI Safety Institute, whose researchers test AI systems for risks and for capabilities that might become dangerous in the future
In May 2023, three of the most important CEOs in artificial intelligence walked through the iconic black front door of No. 10 Downing Street …
Sources: the UK's AI Safety Institute delays plans for its US outpost as it faces Trump's “starkly” different AI regulation approach; the AISI has a £50M budget
Financial Times : Bluesky: @shashj Bluesky: Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “In an effort to maintain its influence, people close to the UK government believe it will increasingly position the AISI [AI Sa...
Sources: the UK told tech companies the AI bill will make existing voluntary agreements legally binding and the AI Safety Institute into an Arm's Length Body
Minister assures tech firms that upcoming legislation will be highly targeted — UK tech secretary Peter Kyle … X: @annasophiegross X: Anna Gross / @annasophiegross : NEW: Tech sec Peter Kyle has tol...
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute
- The centerpiece is money for ‘technological infrastructure’ — Canada has yet to pass law regulating artificial intelligence
The Biden administration names White House economic adviser Elizabeth Kelly to lead the NIST's newly formed AI Safety Institute to develop AI testing standards
Josh Boak / Associated Press :
Sources: OpenAI, DeepMind, and others seek clarity over how the UK's AI Safety Institute is testing their AI models, timeframe, and the feedback process
OpenAI and DeepMind want Britain's new AI safety institute to speed up evaluations of latest models — The world's biggest artificial …
Sources: the UK plans to publish “key tests” that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify risks
Ministers keep threat of future curbs but persist with light-touch regulatory regime — The UK government is set to publish …