https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/02/at-bletchley-rishi-sunak-confirms-ai-safety-institute-but-delays-regulations-for-another-day/ > A Frontier AI taskforce established by the U.K. back in June to prepare for the AI Safety Summit held this week is on course to be a permanent fixture, as the U.K. bids to take a leadership role on AI policy in the future. The U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today formally announced the launch of the AI Safety Institute, a “global hub based in the U.K. and tasked with testing the safety of emerging types of AI.” > The institute was informally announced last week in the lead up to this week’s summit. Now the government has confirmed that it will be led by Ian Hogarth — an investor, founder and engineer had also chaired the taskforce — and that Yoshio Bengio, one of the most prominent people in the field of AI, will be taking the lead on the production of its first report.