Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:14 am on 9 November 2023.

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Photo of Michelle Donelan Michelle Donelan The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology 11:14, 9 November 2023

In fact, we are learning some of those lessons, because the taskforce itself was modelled on our world-leading vaccine taskforce. As to when the institute will be set up, to all intents and purposes it has already been set up, because it is the next chapter—the evolution—of the existing taskforce. That taskforce has already done research on safety, and has demonstrated to delegates at the summit the full potential of the risks that could be apparent. It has already begun testing those models, and I can assure this House that there will be pre-deployment testing of the models that are going to come out within the next six months.