UK ministers commit frontier AI to hunting flaws in government systems
UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan said on October 12 that government will use frontier AI to find flaws in its systems, after hackathons found over 400 flaws. The fix-time fall from 50 days to eight is credited to a central monitoring service.
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Narayan's release warning to AI labs rests on voluntary pre-release access
Kanishka Narayan, Britain's AI minister, told frontier labs on Monday not to release systems whose risks they cannot adequately control. The AI Security Institute that tests them gets models under voluntary agreements and cannot compel a handover.
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MI5 says more than 100 UK-linked academics worked on research China's Ministry of State Security funded through front company CGTRI. Now that the link is public, staying in those projects risks prosecution under the 2023 National Security Act.
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MI5's first standalone Espionage Alert says a Beijing institute tied to China's spy ministry funded projects by more than 100 UK-linked academics. Universities were told to review any current or planned work with the institute immediately.
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buildOne report1 publisher More than 100 UK scientists worked on projects funded by an institute tied to Chinese intelligence, MI5 says
MI5 named a research funder it links to China's Ministry of State Security and said more than 100 UK scientists worked on projects it paid for. Continued work with it risks prosecution under the 2023 National Security Act, so partners of those labs need to check who pays.
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MI5's alert on a Chinese front company turns university due diligence into a legal test
MI5 has named the China General Technology Research Institute, which paid 100 or more UK academics, as a front for Chinese state security. Universities and academics that keep working with it could now face prosecution under the National Security Act 2023.
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- Evidence55
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- Hype gap+10
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Control of Market Basket returns to court a decade after its workers overruled the board
In 2014 Market Basket's mostly non-union staff picketed all 71 stores and stopped the trucks to reinstate Artie T. Demoulas. The $1.6 billion buyback that restored him left the succession question untouched.
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- Evidence58
- Adoption70
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives52
- Confidence62