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UK gov’t touts $100M+ plan to fire up ‘responsible’ AI R&D
The UK government is finally publishing its response to an AI regulation consultation it kicked off last March, when it put out a white paper setting out
The release also touts — a notably larger — £90M (~$1113M) in funding the government says will be used to establish nine research hubs to foster homegrown AI innovation in areas, such as healthcare, math and chemistry, which it suggests will be situated around the UK. At the same time, the European Union just locked in agreement on the final text of its own risk-based framework for regulating “trustworthy” AI — a long-brewing high tech rulebook which looks set to start to apply there from later this year. The department’s press release goes on to describe the government’s response as laying out a “pro-innovation case for further targeted binding requirements on the small number of organisations that are currently developing highly capable general-purpose AI systems, to ensure that they are accountable for making these technologies sufficiently safe”.
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