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UK drops ‘safety’ from its AI body, now called AI Security Institute, inks MOU with Anthropic
The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it
“AI has the potential to transform how governments serve their citizens,” Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said in a statement. (At the time, Peter Kyle, the Secretary of State for Technology, said that the government planned to work with various foundational AI companies, and that is what the Anthropic deal is proving out.) When the newly-installed Labour government announced its AI-heavy Plan for Change in January, it was notable that the words “safety,” “harm,” “existential,” and “threat” did not appear at all in the document.
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