LIVERPOOL, England — The U.K.’s ability to take a global lead on AI safety is “not diminished in the slightest” by the Trump administration's positioning on the technology, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan told the POLITICO Pub at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. General Assembly President Donald Trump said the U.S. would reject any attempts at global regulation for AI, and POLITICO reported that the White House told AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic not to hand their models over to the U.K.'s AI Security Institute until U.S. testers were done looking at them. But Narayan said so long as AISI gets to test models before they're rolled out in the wider world, it doesn't matter if the U.S. gets “first dibs.” “We are in a distinctly unique place globally as the only country, outside of the countries where the labs and models are, which gets access pre-deployment in the wild,” said Narayan.
The U.K.’s AISI “not just keeps the British public safe by virtue of testing, but also shares insights with the Americans so that the American public is kept safer,” said Narayan. It puts the U.K. in a “very unique position, and I think that position has not diminished in the slightest.” Last week U.K. prime minister Andy Burnham used his address at UNGA to announce that the U.K. would use its presidency of the G20 next year to broker global standards on AI. Regarding the U.K.’s global standing, Narayan said “Who do you trust to have both capability and the honesty to be a broker on a broader global conversation on this?” He said there are “very few” countries that would make such a list, “but I can bet you that the United Kingdom is pretty much top of that list.”
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