UK commits £100 million to establish an AI biosecurity lab, with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind participating in the collaboration
The UK announced £100 million (equivalent to $134 million) to build an AI biosecurity laboratory, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind; the laboratory will use artificial intelligence to identify and monitor biological threats. OpenAI and Anthropic will provide AI model compute of up to £200 million, and the laboratory will also collaborate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company BasecampResearch. The announcement also includes additional funding: an extra £120 million for the AI Safety Institute and £23 million to establish an AI Economics Institute.
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The UK announced it will spend 100 million pounds (equivalent to 134 million US dollars) to build an AI biosecurity laboratory, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind. This is one of a package of measures aimed at enhancing the UK government's ability to understand and respond to AI-related risks.
According to a UK government statement, the laboratory will use AI to identify and monitor biological threats; at the same time, OpenAI and Anthropic will provide up to 200 million pounds in AI model computing power. The laboratory will also cooperate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company BasecampResearch. The government has additionally allocated 65 million pounds for research and development of pathogen response measures.
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan said: "As AI capabilities continue to grow, the UK must have the ability to protect its citizens and shape its own future. This means we must stay ahead of emerging threats such as cyberattacks and biological risks, while gaining more mastery of the critical technologies on which national security depends."
Narayan added that the laboratory will become a new globally important institution, bringing together top scientific research forces from around the world to protect people from emerging biological threats and ensure that the UK is a world leader in AI safety.
The establishment of the laboratory makes the UK government's AI strategic thinking increasingly clear: building independent institutions outside the existing government department system to conduct research, monitoring, and application across different dimensions of this technology.
This announcement also includes additional funding: an extra 120 million pounds for the AI Safety Institute. This institution is the government body with the highest funding scale, and its core work is continuously evaluating frontier AI models; another 23 million pounds is allocated for establishing an AI Economics Institute to analyze the economic impact brought by artificial intelligence. news_keyword_pub,usstock,GOOG iframe below main text iframe below main text General statement General statement QR code at end start QR code at end start
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