UK to invest £100 million in AI biosafety laboratory

TechFlow reported that on October 26, according to Bloomberg, the UK government plans to invest £100 million to build an AI biosecurity laboratory, utilizing artificial intelligence to identify, track, and monitor potential biological threats. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind will participate in the project, with OpenAI and Anthropic providing up to £200 million worth of AI model usage credits.

The laboratory will also collaborate with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research. In addition to the biosecurity laboratory, the UK government will allocate £65 million to develop pathogen response measures, and provide an additional £120 million and £23 million to the AI Safety Institute and the AI Economy Institute, respectively, while investing £130 million to leverage AI to enhance the cybersecurity capabilities of critical infrastructure.