UK’s AI safety authority is growing internationally
UK AI Safety Institute sets up office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk
UK’s AI safety authority is growing internationally, with a San Francisco office scheduled to open this summer.
The announcement was made on Monday by the United Kingdom, one of the summit’s co-hosts, ahead of the AI safety summit’s start later this week in Seoul, South Korea.
Founded in November 2023, the AI Safety Institute is a U.K. organisation whose bold mission is to evaluate and mitigate dangers associated with AI platforms.
Newsng understands that the goal is to approach the hub of AI research and development. Companies developing fundamental AI technologies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta, are based in the Bay Area.
Dr Bosun Tijani, Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, recently revealed that the country intends to establish the Nigerian Digital Technology Exchange Programme Hub in a government-owned building in San Francisco, USA.
“By having people on the ground in San Francisco, it will give them access to the headquarters of many of these AI companies,” Michelle Donelan, the U.K. secretary of state for science, innovation and technology, said in an interview.
“A number of them have bases here in the United Kingdom, but we think that would be very useful to have a base there as well, and access to an additional pool of talent, and be able to work even more collaboratively and hand-in-glove with the United States.”
The expansion coincides with the release of some recent safety testing results from five publicly accessible advanced AI models by the UK AI Safety Institute, the world’s first government-backed institution to do so.
Insider sources stated that the office will be an adjunct to the Institute’s London headquarters, which is now home to more than 30 technical employees and is still expanding.
The London branch will keep growing and gaining the knowledge required to evaluate the dangers associated with cutting-edge AI systems.