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.