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The Ada Lovelace Institute has published a review on public sector use of artificial intelligence foundation models, looking at the risks and opportunities associated with the technology, and how these can be dealt with from the early stages of procurement onwards.

Rishi Sunak’s tech company collaborators have cleverly steered the agenda their way

To maintain UK leadership in AI safety and innovation, £100 million was allocated to create the Frontier AI Taskforce, focused on assessing risks at the AI forefront and enhancing public safety and

Shortly after department updated its personal data policies, minister discusses initiative to use automated tech to support digital services ‘with a human touch in a safe, ethical and considered way’ The Department for Work and Pensions is running a dedicated “lighthouse programme” to explore the

Averting existential risk from AGI is daunting, and leaving this challenge to private companies is a dangerous gamble.

‘If it’s not utopia, it’s annihilation’: How existential AI fears shot up Rishi Sunak’s agenda.

Committee to assess large language models and what needs to happen over the next three years to ensure the UK can respond to the risks they introduce.

Seven leading AI experts have joined the Frontier AI Taskforce with the aim of fostering global coordination and research on AI safety.

A UK parliamentary committee that's investigating the opportunities and challenges unfolding around artificial intelligence has urged the government to A UK parliamentary committee that's investigating the opportunities and challenges unfolding around AI has urged the government to introduce legislation to regulate the tech in the next parliament.

A UK parliamentary committee investigating artificial intelligence’s opportunities and challenges has urged the government to reconsider its decision not to introduce legislation to regulate the technology in the short term and to make an AI bill a ministerial priority. Committee chair Greg Clark writes in a statement today accompanying the publication of an interim report …