The UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, founded in 2015 and based at the British Library in London.
George Williamson, the Alan Turing Institute's new head, says the UK must not depend on foreign AI systems that can be switched off at short notice. He wants a domestic fallback for critical services, built without trying to match the budgets of the frontier labs.
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Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London pooled 423 studies and found most of 23 ecosystem benefits rise steadily with diversity. Species appear to stand in for one another less than ecologists assumed, so even small losses tend to cut what ecosystems provide.
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Warnings that AI is about to escape human control rest on the forecasts of well-known figures. New Scientist put the question to two researchers, who point to cyber-capability tests that their own designers did not isolate.
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A dev.to survey walks seven AI supply chain entry points and the named incidents behind each. The two dataset-poisoning numbers in it are the ones that should change how a model review is scoped.
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Seoul wants top-three status by 2035 on more than 1,000 trillion won. The inaugural director of its National AI Research Hub says the money is budgeted on the wrong clock.
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