UK to establish world's first AI biosecurity laboratory, with OpenAI and Anthropic participating in support
OpenAI、Anthropic齐参与！全球首个AI生物安全实验室将问世
The UK Cabinet Office issued an announcement stating that it will establish a national AI biosecurity laboratory, supported jointly by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, and that as part of Wednesday's budget, the government will spend 100 million pounds to build the institution. The official statement says this will be the world's first institution dedicated to AI biosecurity work, using AI to detect and monitor biosecurity threats; in addition to government funding, it will receive model usage credits worth up to 200 million pounds from OpenAI and Anthropic, and will cooperate deeply with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research. The announcement also includes an additional 120 million pounds in budget for the UK AI Safety Institute and an additional 23 million pounds for the planned UK AI Economy Institute. The laboratory's specific functional structure and operational boundaries have not yet been fully disclosed.
The UK will spend 100 million pounds to establish an AI biosecurity laboratory, with OpenAI and Anthropic providing model credits; from this one can learn about the model of security collaboration between government and frontier AI companies.