This is part of a plan to "set new, international standards on AI safety", according to UK's technology minister Michele Donelan.
[2] The United Kingdom founded in April 2023 a safety organisation called Frontier AI Taskforce, with an initial budget of £100 million.
Unlike the European Union which adopted the AI Act, the UK is reluctant to legislate early, considering that it may lower the sector's growth, and that laws might be rendered obsolete by technological progress.
This happened the day after the signature of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.
[14] In February 2024, the US government created the US AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), regrouping more than 200 organizations such as Google, Anthropic or Microsoft.