UK gov commits ~£600m to AI safety: AISI's $120m annual budget now exceeds all other institutes combined
sarahdrinkwater · x · 2026-10-25
A detailed breakdown of the UK government's £600m AI funding package, countering common partisan takes that either dismiss the sum or object to state picking winners.
- £165m National AI Biosecurity Initiative, incl. £100m for a new AI Biosecurity Lab to detect emerging biological threats
- £120m top-up for the AI Security Institute (AISI); charts show AISI's annual budget ($120.4m) now exceeds every other charted institute combined ($108.1m, only $51.9m recurring)
- £70m NERV Centre for critical-infrastructure vulnerabilities, £60m National Cyber Shield, £60m UK Sovereign AI, £60m R&D procurement, £30m mayoral AI partnerships
A separate excerpt reveals the UK will launch an AI Threat Assessment Centre (AITAC) in 2026, housed in MI5 and drawing on AISI, NCA and NCSC for all-source threat assessments — with MI5 explicitly acknowledging the alignment problem "deserves the serious attention it is getting."
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