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Introducing the UK AI Safety Institute
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The founding document of the UK AI Safety Institute, a landmark in state-level AI governance, establishing institutional framing and mission priorities that influenced subsequent international AI safety efforts including the Bletchley Declaration.
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The UK government's foundational document introducing the AI Safety Institute (AISI), the first state-backed organization dedicated to advanced AI safety for the public interest. It outlines AISI's mission to minimize surprise from rapid AI advances and develop sociotechnical infrastructure to understand and mitigate AI risks, presented to Parliament in November 2023 by Ian Hogarth.
Key Points
- •AISI is the first state-backed organization focused specifically on advanced AI safety for the public interest, established under the Sunak government in 2023.
- •Mission framed around 'minimizing surprise' from rapid AI advances, developing sociotechnical infrastructure for understanding and mitigating AI risks.
- •Foreword acknowledges dual-use nature of AI: potential for scientific breakthroughs vs. risks of power concentration, security threats, and labor disruption.
- •Explicitly rejects technological determinism: 'AI is not a natural phenomenon happening to us' but a human creation that can be proactively shaped.
- •Invokes I.J. Good's call to take speculative AI risks seriously, signaling openness to frontier and long-term safety concerns.
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Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology by Command of His Majesty.
November 2023
CP 960
E03012924
ISBN: 978-1-5286-4538-6
Ministerial foreword
The release of ChatGPT was a Sputnik moment for humanity – we were surprised by rapid and unexpected progress in a technology of our own creation. With accelerating investment into and public adoption of advanced AI , these systems are becoming more powerful and consequential to our lives.
These systems could free people everywhere from tedious routine work and amplify our creative abilities. But they could also change our future labour markets and economy more quickly than any other technological advance in history. They could help our scientists unlock bold new discoveries, opening the door to a world without cancer and with access to near-limitless clean energy. But they could also further concentrate unaccountable power into the hands of a few, or be maliciously used to undermine societal trust, erode public safety, or threaten international security.
Some of these risks already manifest as harms to people today and are exacerbated by advances at the frontier of
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