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