🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

In November, tech companies promised pre-release access of their latest models for safety testing. Turns out, they're refusing to provide it. Let's say it together - voluntary commitments do not work. We need mandatory requirements, not broken promises. politico.eu/article/rishi-…

We are announcing new grants for research into systemic AI safety. Initially backed by up to £8.5 million, this program will fund researchers to advance the science underpinning AI safety. Read more: gov.uk/government/new…

Increasingly advanced AI systems will diffuse into society. How do we manage the accompanying risks? In our a paper, we explore Societal Adaptation to Advanced AI: reducing harm from diffusion of AI capabilities by intervening to avoid, defend against, and remedy harmful use.

Excited that the Fabians Defence & Security Policy Group are hosting a discussion looking forward to what a Labour government might bring for UK tech. If you have a background in innovation, startups, R&D, AI, or technology governance, sign up through: lu.ma/pnwz1wd0

Peter Kyle: a Labour gov would put the AI Safety Institute onto statutory footing, requiring frontier AI firms to share their codes. Legislative foundation rather than voluntary codes, he says.

"Power in AI accrues disproportionately to a handful of private firms. A publicly-funded international organisation might be better able to avoid economic pressures overriding meaningful research." Superb read on 'CERN for AI' proposals by Elliot Jones chathamhouse.org/2024/06/artifi…

New: "Safe beyond sale: Post-deployment monitoring for advanced AI governance." with Connor Dunlop - Why? 1) Pre-deployment evals might fail 2) AI capabilities and risks change depending on usage context - How? An FMTI, but extended & mandatory adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/post-depl…

Oof

There does not have to be a trade off between AI safety and growth. In fact, the AI assurance market could generate over £18bn per year for the UK economy by 2030. Important new paper from UK Day One, Social Market Foundation & Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)

“We welcome the Government’s confirmation that it will seek to establish legislation ... but it will need to maintain momentum and bring forward a Bill as soon as is practicable." Read our Director Gaia Marcus's full response to the King's Speech⬇️ adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-kings…

📢We're hiring! We are looking for a UK Public Policy Lead to deliver our work influencing law and policy, as part of Ada’s mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society. Apply by 4 September 2024: adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/uk-public-…

On today's Lawfare Daily, Kevin Frazier talked to Elliot Jones about the current state of efforts to test AI systems, why evaluations, audits, and related assessments have become a key part of AI regulation, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

It's rare that spending cuts are good for research. But under pressure to close a "£22bn fiscal black hole", here's how Labour could save £30 million while improving research impact, quality and dissemination.

It's super cool that local London start-up @apolloaisafety is trusted by OpenAi to do these evals & is discovering such important stuff With AISI & big 4 auditors, real opportunity for the UK to be a hub for AI testing, evals & assurance (which UK govt says is a £4bn market)

👻Spooked by AI? It’s not the first time policymakers have had to govern highly complex, socially-important technologies. 🪦Read the lessons we dug up from the regulation of carbon emissions, financial services and pharmaceuticals: adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/new-rul…

📣Register now for our online panel on the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI. - Matt Davies, Ada Lovelace Institute - Amba Kak, AI Now Institute - Haydn Belfield, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk - Mary Towers, Trades Union Congress 🗓️11 November 🕔17:00 UK time adalovelaceinstitute.org/event/uk-indus…

Compute (the processing power to train/run AI models) has gained prominence as AI has become an industrial priority for countries or trading blocs globally. Our policy briefing maps existing and planned strategies for public provision of compute. adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-briefin…

💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles/redis…

individual reporting for post-deployment evals — a little manifesto (& new preprints!) tldr: end users have unique insights about how deployed systems are failing; we should figure out how to translate their experiences into formal evaluations of those systems.