Sunak announces UK AI safety institute but declines to support moratorium

Rishi Sunak said the institute would explore ‘all the risks, from social harms like bias and misinformation, through to the most extreme risks of all’. Photograph: Jaime Lorriman/AP

Rishi Sunak has announced the establishment of a UK AI safety institute but has declined to support a moratorium on advanced development of the technology.

The prime minister said the institute would be a world first and would test new types of AI for a range of risks from generating misinformation to posing an existential threat.