UK to pour another £120M into AI testing agency, outspending US counterpart 10x
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-10-30
- Britain plans to add roughly $160 million (£120M) to its AI testing agency AISI — an infusion alone more than 10 times the annual budget of its US counterpart.
- The report contrasts this with the US, where federal AI evaluation efforts receive far less funding and are spread across multiple agencies.
- Commentators note UK AISI may become an unusually powerful institution in an otherwise unremarkable jurisdiction, akin to the Delaware Court of Chancery.
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