The UK AI Safety Institute's funding scale far exceeds that of the US CAISSI
Britain’s AI testing agency outguns US
The UK plans to add 120 million pounds (about 160 million US dollars) to its AI Safety Institute (AISI), and this investment alone exceeds the annual budget of the corresponding US agency CAISSI by more than ten times. The funding is part of an AI package that UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey previewed before submitting the budget to Parliament, which also includes a 60 million pound sovereign AI fund, 18 million pounds for chip design, and 10 million pounds per year to study how AI affects jobs. The UK AISI, established in 2023, currently has more than 100 employees, drawn from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, as well as UK intelligence agencies and universities. According to a September report by Politico, the White House had asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share new models with UK institutions before the US government completed its review.