UK announces €100 million to build an AI biosecurity laboratory with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind
UK vows 100 mn euros for biosecurity lab with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
The UK announced €100 million (about $134 million) to build an AI biosecurity laboratory, supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, using AI to detect and monitor biological threats, while receiving up to €200 million in AI model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic, and partnering with life sciences company Basecamp Research; the government is allocating a further €65 million to develop pathogen countermeasures. The same batch of measures also includes an additional €120 million for the AI Security Institute, an additional €23 million for the AI economics institute currently being established, €130 million to use AI to investigate cyber vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure, and an additional €120 million for the sovereign AI fund, expanding its scope to physical and industrial AI such as robotics, autonomous systems and advanced manufacturing.
The UK gives specific amounts and division of labor for institutions such as the biosecurity laboratory and the AI Security Institute, which can serve as a reference for observing how governments work with frontier laboratories to lay out AI safety.