Sunak will use the second day of Britain’s upcoming two-day AI summit to gather “like-minded countries” and executives from the leading AI companies to set out a roadmap for an AI Safety Institute, according to five people familiar with the government’s plans.
The body would assist governments in evaluating national security risks associated with frontier models, which are the most advanced forms of the technology.
The idea is that the institute could emerge from what is now the United Kingdom’s government’s Frontier AI Taskforce[...].
Having thought more about it, I think the AI safety institute might be a continuation of the UK Frontier AI Taskforce. I don’t know anything about the object-level output of the Taskforce but they’ve certainly managed to put together a great bunch of people as advisors and contributors (Yoshua Bengio, Paul Christiano, etc.). Very excited to see what comes out of this.
As far as I understand the plan is for it to be a (sort of?) national/governmental institute.[1] The UK government has quite a few scientific institutes. It might be the first in the world of that kind.
In this article from early October, the phrasing implies that it would be tied to the UK government:
Having thought more about it, I think the AI safety institute might be a continuation of the UK Frontier AI Taskforce. I don’t know anything about the object-level output of the Taskforce but they’ve certainly managed to put together a great bunch of people as advisors and contributors (Yoshua Bengio, Paul Christiano, etc.). Very excited to see what comes out of this.