AI minister warns 'likely' UK's cyber defences will be breached
The government will expand frontier AI testing and weigh mandatory incident reporting after pilots found more than 1,000 vulnerabilities across government systems.
- On Monday, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan announced the UK government is developing plans for mandatory safety reporting and monitoring requirements for advanced artificial intelligence systems.
- Narayan warned that cyber defense breaches are "likely, if not inevitable," citing a June incident where a rogue OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website seeking public spending data.
- The government will expand existing pilots that identified and fixed over 1,000 vulnerabilities, moving from public repositories into closed government systems to strengthen national resilience.
- Following successful lobbying to overturn a White House ban, the UK's AI Security Institute regained access to evaluate frontier models, ensuring rigorous safety testing before public release.
- Ministers are exploring updates to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill to cover hospitals and utilities against AI-specific risks, aiming to establish legal frameworks for incident reporting.
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Britain steps up its defences against AI risks
The UK government will extend a programme using frontier AI models to find vulnerabilities in its own systems, and will consider legislating on AI incident reporting and loss-of-control risk. The pilot behind it found 407 weaknesses across nine government organisations in a month for £13,000 in tokens. Britain will expand a programme that points frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan Issues Stark Warning On Cyber Risks
Britain's AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan, issued a strong warning on Monday about the growing risks posed by artificial intelligence to cyber defences. He highlighted the potential for serious consequences from autonomous AI systems and announced new government measures, including a 'National Cyber Action Plan', to bolster the UK's resilience against cyber-attacks.
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AI breach of UK cyber defences ‘likely, if not inevitable’, minister warns
Kanishka Narayan said developers must ‘build machines that leave us human beings in charge’.
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