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UK government sets out £600m of AI security funding

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Britain’s government announced about £600m (R13.32bn) in funding on Saturday, mainly to help protect people from health and security threats linked to artificial intelligence (AI).

The largest share of the money will go to a new project to protect people from biological threats. This includes £100m (R2.22bn) for a laboratory that will use AI to find biological threats and £65m (R1.44bn) to develop ways to fight harmful germs called pathogens.

AI minister Kanishka Narayan said the goal was to make the AI Biosecurity Lab a leading institution worldwide. He said it would bring together top scientific experts to protect people from new biological threats.

Technology companies OpenAI and Anthropic will provide up to £200m (R4.44bn) in credits to use their AI models for the biosecurity project.

Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research, an AI company working in life sciences and based in London, will provide other support.

Britain’s government will give an extra £120m (R2.66bn) to its existing AI Security Institute.

  • £130m (R2.88bn) will fund new projects to strengthen protection against cyberattacks on important infrastructure and the wider economy. These projects are called the National Cyber Shield and the National Exposure and Real-Time Vulnerability Centre.
  • £60m (R1.33bn) will go into a fund that invests in British companies using AI to improve robotics, machines that work on their own, and manufacturing.
  • £60m will pay for AI research and contracts to buy AI-related goods and services.
  • An extra £23m (R510.5m) will fund research into how AI affects the economy.
  • £18m (R399.6m) will fund a new academy to teach chip design.
  • £15m (R333m) will fund a prize for AI solutions to public policy problems, starting with health care.
  • £30m (R666m) will go to regional mayors to support AI projects in their areas.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre will also receive an unspecified amount of money to expand its work in Manchester.

Anthropic alone had more than $12bn (R199.1bn) in operating expenses last year, meaning the costs of running its business.

Reuters