AI Safety Summit: AI threat to humanity warns Musk, nations sign ‘Bletchley declaration’

Bletchley Park where the AI Safety Summit is taking place The UK, US, EU, Australia and China have all agreed that artificial intelligence poses a potentially catastrophic risk to humanity, in the first international declaration to deal with the fast-emerging technology. Twenty-eight governments signed up to the so-called Bletchley declaration on the first…

UK announces £118m AI skills funding

The UK’s AI skills base is set to be future-proofed with a £118m boost to funding, the Government claims in an announcement today (Tuesday 31 October).  This includes naming, for the first time, the further 12 Centres for Doctoral Training in AI that will benefit from Government backing through UK Research and Innovation. Meanwhile, a…

Majority of developers identify AI as main security challenge, claims report

78% of developers see generative AI as a challenge to data security. However, 83% of respondents note their organizations have already invested in AI technology to manage and/or analyze data. 68% of developers have used passkeys for work applications, yet only 36% believe FIDO2 and passkeys could replace passwords. Over half (54%) of developers spend…