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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Robert Booth and Dan Milmo

UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts

A technician checks liquid-cooled server racks in a glowing teal-lit datacentre
Liquid-cooled servers at a datacentre in London. Narayan will argue the UK needs to build more of its own AI infrastructure. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Companies building the most advanced AI systems must increase safety efforts, the UK’s AI minister will say, as he announces a strengthening of Britain’s cyber defences.

Kanishka Narayan will call on companies developing frontier AI to do more to make sure it is safe. He will say Britain cannot rely entirely on technology companies to police their own models and will argue the UK needs to build more of its own AI infrastructure.

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