UK to work with other 'middle powers' on AI security, minister says

UK will work with other “middle powers” such as France, Germany and ​Canada on AI security to help ‌shape the future of a technology dominated by the United States and China, Technology ​Secretary Liz Kendall said.

UK’s AI Security ​Institute (AISI) generated interest from other countries when ⁠it evaluated Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model ​earlier this month, showing that it could ​exploit security weaknesses, she said on Tuesday.

 

  • Kendall told reporters: “Many other countries are extremely interested in working ​with us to learn some of ​the lessons from what AISI is doing.”
  • UK will ‌publish ⁠best practice on evaluating AI models in July at the next meeting of AI Security Institutes.
  • AISI, which sits under Kendall’s ​department, has ​agreements ⁠with OpenAI, Anthropic and others to evaluate their models.
  • Kendell said ​work with UK’s peers should not ​be ⁠seen as weakening its “deep, close and enduring relationship” with the United States, which ⁠is ​home to the five ​hyperscalers that control about 70% of global AI compute ​power.