UK AI minister calls for countries to harden defenses against AI risks

UK government AI lead Kanishka Narayan said at the Labour Party conference that frontier AI risks must be taken seriously and nations need to 'harden and build defenses,' noting testing alone is clearly insufficient. Former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon warned AI could kill us all by the end of the decade; his post was seen 175 million times, and Anthropic scientist Evan Hubinger agreed the risk exceeds 10%.

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