NEW DELHI: Britain will retain early access to the latest arti¿cial intelligence models for safety testing, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan has said, following reports that the White House had restricted the UK’s access, reported AFP.
Concerns about AI safety have escalated in recent months after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling pressure on governments to regulate the technology.
“We have been working closely with the US government… to retain access for Britain’s AI Security Institute to the most powerful AI models before they are released,” Narayan said in a speech in London.
It marks a reversal from the previous position of President Donald Trump’s administration, which had asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their models with the UK testing lab before they have been assessed by US authorities, according to several media outlets.
