Rishi Sunak announces creation of AI Safety Institute in UK

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Thursday that governments must be honest about the risks posed by artificial intelligence, as he prepares to host a global summit on the issue in Britain next week.
During his speech, he announced that Britain would create an AI Safety Institute to examine and test new types of AI and explore its risks, including social harms like bias and misinformation.
A government study also published Thursday, written with the support of 50 experts, warns that AI has the potential to enhance terrorist capabilities in developing weapons, planning attacks and producing propaganda.
It says generative AI, which creates text and images from written prompts, significantly increases risks to safety and security. "By 2025, generative AI is more likely to amplify existing risks than create wholly new ones, but it will increase sharply the speed and scale of some threats," the paper says.