AI Safety Institute

**Our mission is to equip governments with an empirical understanding of the safety of advanced AI systems.** The AI Safety Institute is a research organisation within the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology. **Organisation** The AI Safety Institute is a research organisation within the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology. We are working to: - Test advanced AI systems and inform policymakers about their risks; - Foster collaboration across companies, governments, and the wider research community to mitigate risks and advance publicly beneficial research; and - Strengthen AI development practices and policy globally. To deliver on these ambitious goals, we designed the Institute as a **startup in the government**, combining the authority of government with the expertise and agility of the private sector. **We have recruited top talent from across the public and private sectors** - Our Chair Ian Hogarth brings experience as a tech investor and entrepreneur. - Our Director Oliver Ilott previously led the Prime Minister’s domestic private office. - Our advisory board comprises national security and machine learning leaders, such as Yoshua Bengio. - Our Chief Technology Officer Jade Leung previously led the Governance team at OpenAI. - Our Research Directors Geoffrey Irving, Professor Yarin Gal, and Professor Chris Summerfield have led teams at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford. - We already have >30 technical staff, and we are scaling rapidly. **We are backing our team with the resources they need to move fast** - **£100m in initial funding** for the organisation - **Privileged access to top AI models** from leading companies - Priority access to over **£1.5 billion of compute** in the UK’s AI Research Resource and exascale supercomputing programme - Over **20 partnerships** with top research organisations