AI Minister Warns Tech Giants Cannot Be Trusted to Police Themselves
The government is weighing mandatory incident reporting and tighter oversight as Narayan says two pilots have already found and fixed over 1,000 vulnerabilities.
- On Monday, Britain announced plans to introduce mandatory safety reporting requirements for advanced AI systems, requiring businesses to disclose incidents where autonomous agents behave unexpectedly or maliciously.
- Minister Kanishka Narayan warned that a breach of Britain's cyber defenses is "likely, if not inevitable," citing a June incident where a rogue OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government website seeking public spending data.
- Scientists at the Security Institute are conducting "rigorous evaluations" of advanced models to "identify risks early" and "test robust safeguards," building on pilots that fixed over 1,000 vulnerabilities across government systems.
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham plans to make AI governance the main topic of next year's G20 in Manchester, positioning Britain as an "honest broker" between nations seeking rapid innovation and stricter global safety standards.
- Microsoft President Brad Smith called for "emergency brakes" to prevent runaway technology, while Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger warned there is a greater than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans" within the next decade.
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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’.
AI minister warns tech giants cannot be trusted to police themselves
Britain cannot rely on tech giants to police their own AI systems, the government has warned, as ministers prepare new measures to protect businesses and national security from increasingly powerful artificial intelligence. AI minister Kanishka Narayan has called for a national effort to strengthen Britain’s defences against the technology, warning that the risks are growing [...]
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