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On July 18th, The Right Honourable Baroness Hallett published Module 1 of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry, focusing on the Resilience and Preparedness of the United Kingdom.

As part of our work to identify the three most beneficial next steps that the UK Government can take to reduce the biological risk posed by BTs, our team reflected on where the approach to narrow, specialised tools will need to differ from existing approaches to mitigating the risks from frontier AI. 

This week marks an important milestone in the UK Government’s journey to regulating AI, with the first official update on the UK’s approach to AI regulation since the White Paper published last March.

On 4 December, the UK Government released its 2023 Implementation Update to the UK Government Resilience Framework, published in December last year. In our original response to the Framework, we commended it as a welcome first step, while also identifying six areas for further improvement. 

On the 1st and 2nd November, the UK government held the widely-anticipated AI Safety Summit. In this post, we share some reflections on the week and what we hope to see next.

The UK government has committed to holding an international summit on AI safety at Bletchley Park this November.

The Government has published the National Risk Register 2023 (NRR ‘23), which follows previous versions in 2017 and 2020 and is the eighth edition since the first publication in 2008.

The past 6 months have seen rapid advances in the capabilities of general-purpose AI systems, often called “foundation models”.

We are pleased to see many important commitments to strengthening the UK’s capabilities for preventing, detecting and responding to biological threats in the Biological Security Strategy (BSS), published on 12 June 2023.

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience welcomes the publication of the refreshed Biological Security Strategy (BSS) from the UK Government.

On Monday, the UK Government published its long-awaited Integrated Review Refresh 2023. Its emphasis on resilience — especially at a time of heightened volatility — is a welcome step.

On Monday, the UK Government published its long-awaited Integrated Review Refresh 2023. Its emphasis on resilience — especially at a time of heightened volatility — is a welcome step.

We are pleased to see the publication of the UK’s Future of Compute Review, making a number of recommendations for investing in a strong compute ecosystem in the UK.

We are pleased to see many important commitments to safe and responsible use of AI in the UK Defence AI Strategy which was published last week.

Metagenomic sequencing is a potentially game-changing technology to help defend society against emerging biological threats.

On Monday, the UK Government published its Resilience Framework, long-awaited by resilience experts across all sectors.

Out of the wreckage of the Second World War, the UK transformed itself. It rebuilt its shattered economy. It founded the NHS. It helped establish international institutions like the United Nations, so that the world would never endure a tragedy on this scale again.

Artificial intelligence. Biosecurity. Climate change. These are some of the defining long term challenges of our time. But we can see their impact in the short term too.