Microsoft President Brad Smith says the UK is best placed to lead AI regulation

Microsoft President Brad Smith said the UK is better suited than the US and the EU to lead global AI regulation, and called for safety rules to be drawn up as soon as possible. The UK AI Security Institute can get access to US frontier models before they are deployed. Trump reportedly asked Anthropic and OpenAI last month not to provide new models to UK testers, but the AISI confirmed on Monday that it can still test them. Smith also argued for a duty to report out-of-control AI agents, external pre-release evaluations, and a kill-switch.