2023-11-02
The next AI Safety Summit will take place in South Korea in 6 months' time followed by another one in France in a year, Michelle Donelan announces. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo confirms the US is setting up an AI Safety Institute similar to the UK's.
Wired
The Office of Management and Budget releases draft rules for US federal agencies to assess AI in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential harms
Draft rules from the White House would require federal agencies to assess AI systems currently in use in law enforcement …
The next AI Safety Summit will take place in South Korea in 6 months' time followed by another one in France in a year, Michelle Donelan announces. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo confirms the US is setting up an AI Safety Institute similar to the UK's.
TechCrunch
At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 28 countries and the EU, and the US announces an AI Safety Institute
from government to civil society to the private sector — must work together to build a future where AI creates opportunity, advances equity, and protects fundamental rights and fre...
2023-11-01
The next AI Safety Summit will take place in South Korea in 6 months' time followed by another one in France in a year, Michelle Donelan announces. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo confirms the US is setting up an AI Safety Institute similar to the UK's.
TechCrunch
At the UK's AI Safety Summit, the UK releases the Bletchley Declaration, signed by 29 countries, and the US Commerce Secretary announces an AI Safety Institute
The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together …
2023-10-26
@theipaper Sunak will seek to establish a global expert panel of scientists appointed by *all* countries attending next week's Bletchley Park summit (therefore inc China), to publish a report on “the state of AI science”. He says “a more international approach to safety” is needed.
Politico
UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans to set up a UK-based AI Safety Institute and an AI research network modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the UK AI Summit in November
@theipaper He defends the controversial concept of ‘responsible scaling’, ie allowing firms to develop ever more powerful models and only stepping in when a certain level danger of reached. PM says: “Close collaboration with the companies themselves is important.”
Politico
UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans to set up a UK-based AI Safety Institute and an AI research network modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the UK AI Summit in November
@theipaper Tech firms have given the UK's AI taskforce “privileged access” to their models - Sunak says companies must prove their models are safe before they're released.
Politico
UK PM Rishi Sunak announces plans to set up a UK-based AI Safety Institute and an AI research network modeled on the IPCC, ahead of the UK AI Summit in November
2023-06-12
EXC @theipaper Rishi Sunak tells i readers: “I get people are worried about AI, that's why we're going to do cutting-edge safety research here in the UK.” PM announces the UK will fund two new Turing fellowships on AI. https://www.youtube.com/...
Politico
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic agreed to open up their AI models to the UK government for research and safety purposes
LONDON — Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic have agreed to open up their AI models to the U.K. government for research and safety purposes …
2022-11-03
Scoop @theipaper by @ChaplainChloe: Online Safety Bill will return this month - *without* controversial clause forcing web firms to censor ‘legal but harmful’ content. Requirement will be restricted to posts aimed at children after free speech fears. https://inews.co.uk/...
The i Paper
Source: the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill's controversial “legal but harmful” content rules, leaving them only for material targeted at children
EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer
2021-05-14
New study estimates that the NHS Covid-19 app reduced the size of the 2nd wave by around 25%. Surely this will encourage ministers to push its use as we emerge further out of lockdown. https://twitter.com/...
BBC
A peer-reviewed study finds UK's NHS contact-tracing app reduced the second wave by roughly 25%, averting ~594,000 out of 1.89M cases from October-December 2020
The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found.