Building Britain’s AI resilience: the work already underway in White City Innovation District
The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP, Minister for Artificial Intelligence, joined Imperial at WestTech London today to give a key speech on building Britain’s AI resilience – work that is already underway in White City Innovation District.
At the Imperial College London event – held at Base One, WestTech London’s newest deep tech innovation space – the Minister set out a suite of new measures to better protect Britain from the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems. The government will put frontier AI to work strengthening the UK’s cyber defences, building on two pilots that have already helped find and fix more than a thousand potential vulnerabilities across government systems. It will also examine stronger legal protections and prepare for serious incidents involving autonomous AI systems.
The Minister’s ambition is for Britain to become “one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence.”
As Imperial College London Provost Professor Peter Haynes remarked, the focus is on “ensuring that frontier AI is developed and deployed safely and responsibly, with governance, safeguards and real-world impact embedded from the outset.”
Pictured, left to right: Imperial’s Chief of Staff to the President, Amanda Wolthuizen; the Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP; and Imperial Provost and Deputy President Professor Peter Haynes
In White City Innovation District, that work is gathering pace. All four of the WestTech London AI initiatives highlighted at the event are linked to the district. A new Academic Building at the White City Deep Tech Campus will bring researchers together at unprecedented scale for data science, AI and machine learning. The district is also home to the new Centre for AI-Driven Innovation, established jointly with the World Economic Forum and supported by the UK government, which is the first WEF Global Centre in the UK. Imperial’s School of Convergence Science has a major focus on Human and Artificial Intelligence, shaping a responsible, collaborative AI landscape that amplifies human creativity, intelligence and societal impact while keeping people empowered. The new landmark Frontier AI Lab with Thomson Reuters is focused on AI safety, reliability and its societal and economic impact.
Read more about the visit on the Imperial College London website.
The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP, Minister for Artificial Intelligence, gives a key speech on building Britain’s AI resilience at Base One in North Acton – part of Old Oak Innovation Cluster and one of the four cornerstones of WestTech London, together with White City Innovation District.