The technology secretary has admitted he is "very concerned" about national security issues related to artificial intelligence. Peter Kyle says he will announce at Munich's Security Conference that the UK's AI Safety Institute will focus more on national security rather than bias and free speech. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We have in Britain the AI Safety Institute, and I'm rebranding it the AI Security Institute,
00:04because I want to be honest with the public about the work we're actually doing. In the last six,
00:09seven months since I've been the Secretary of State, I've been working with the Institute
00:12and seeing the work that it's doing when it comes to things like chemical, biological,
00:16and radiological capacities that are within the new emerging cutting-edge AI models. And we've
00:24been working with those companies on a voluntary basis, but they're all engaging very fulsomely
00:28to make sure that those potential threats, those potential dangers, are mitigated before
00:35those models are released. So for the first time, I'm being honest about the work that we're doing
00:40to reassure people that we are doing this work, that we are sharing the nature of the work we do,
00:46the potential hazards that those cutting-edge aspects of AI has for our society and, of course,
00:53the globe, but to reassure people that we are doing that work. It is being done, and there
00:58are other aspects of it which will contribute towards global safety going forward. Well,
01:04the Paris Agreement was actually wide-ranging, and the vast majority of it we did sign up to,
01:10and there were loads of other agreements that were signed there. We agreed to all of those.
01:14On the main agreement, as you can see today, I am very concerned about some of the national
01:18security issues relating to AI and the very cutting-edge aspects of AI, and that wasn't
01:24taken care of in that particular agreement, but you can see in one week we have been very clear
01:29about taking the opportunities of AI. We are very clear about making sure that AI is safe,
01:35but we're also taking a very pointed, very focused look at some of the real challenging
01:40national security issues which could have a big impact on way of life and life itself,
01:46and the UK government is leading on that, not just for models based that are being created
01:50in Europe and America and in the UK. We're now starting to test models from around the world as
01:56well, and where we uncover potential threats within those models, we are engaging with our
02:02international key allies, and we will share that data because the work that the UK is doing
02:07is genuinely world-leading. We are able to do work that no other country can do,
02:11and we want to make sure that we can contribute towards the global safety environment as well as
02:15security environment as well as just the domestic one so that we have the global good taken care of
02:20too.