What is the UK's AI Security Institute?
The Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (AISI) (previously called the UK’s Foundation Model AI Taskforce and the UK’s AI Safety Institute) was announced in April 20231 with £100 million in funding. Ian Hogarth was appointed as the chair of the taskforce in June 2023.
As of October 2023, AISI has released two progress reports (1, 2). It presented at the UK AI Safety Summit on its research related to misuse, societal harm, loss of human control, and unpredictable progress.
AISI’s advisory board includes researchers Yoshua Bengio and Paul Christiano, UK Government officials Matt Collins, Anne Keast-Butler, and Alex van Someren, and medical professional Helen Stokes-Lampard.
It also has partnerships with ARC Evals, Advai, Apollo Research, The Center for AI Safety, the Collective Intelligence Project, Faculty, Gryphon Scientific, OpenMined, RAND, Redwood Research, and Trail of Bits, and has recruited AI researchers including Yarin Gal, David Krueger, Jade Leung, and Rumman Chowdhury.
It was renamed the “Frontier AI Taskforce” in September 2023, became the AI Safety Institute in November 2023, and was renamed the AI Security Institute in February 2025. ↩︎