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UK AI Safety Institute: third progress report

Third progress report by Ian Hogarth, Chair of UK's AI Safety Institute.

• From: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and AI Safety Institute
• Published: 5 February 2024

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The Chair of UK’s AI Safety Institute (AISI), Ian Hogarth’s, third progress report includes the following announcements:

• Geoffrey Irving, who led the Scalable Alignment Team at Google DeepMind is joining us as Research Director
• Chris Summerfield, Oxford University’s Cognitive Neuroscience Professor, is also joining as Research Director to lead our societal impacts work
• to keep up with the latest wave of AI models we have onboarded 23 technical researchers and aim to grow to a team of 50-60 by the end of the year
• published the principles behind the International Scientific Report on Advanced AI Safety, a landmark paper sharing the latest research and opinions from the world’s leading AI experts including the Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio
• we’ve begun pre-deployment testing for potentially harmful capabilities on advanced AI systems

Effective start-ups send regular updates to stakeholders. We have been in operation for almost eight months and this is our third progress report.

Published 5 February 2024