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UK turns its Frontier AI Taskforce into a permanent AI Safety Institute

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Source: GOV.UK: Prime Minister launches new AI Safety Institute

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched the UK AI Safety Institute on 2 November 2023, at the close of the Bletchley Park summit, by placing the Frontier AI Taskforce on a permanent footing with Ian Hogarth as chair. The institute is to test new frontier models before and after release. The UK announced partnerships with the US AI Safety Institute and Singapore on safety testing, and leading AI companies agreed to work with it.

Why it matters

Frontier developers now had a government body that would test their models before release, and Japan and other countries set up their own institutes in the following months.

When
2 Nov 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0036
Who
AI Safety Institute (UK), Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; Rishi Sunak, Ian Hogarth

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GOV.UK

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextUS and UK sign agreement for their AI Safety Institutes to test advanced models jointly

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WTA-N-2023-0036: “UK turns its Frontier AI Taskforce into a permanent AI Safety Institute.” wheresthe.ai, 2 Nov 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-ai-safety-institute-launch-2023-11/ (source: GOV.UK: Prime Minister launches new AI Safety Institute).

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