Headline, June 08 2026/ DANGERS : ''' WITHIN * A.I. WITHOUT '''

DANGERS : 

''' WITHIN * A.I. WITHOUT '''

INVESTIGATING the dangers that lurk within A.I : On a recent Tuesday in an Edwardian government building along Parliament Square in London, four artificial experts were busy tricking an A.I. chatbot into sharing instructions for making the deadly bioweapon anthrax.

In various ways, the experts asked the chatbot to give a list of needed ingredients. When the system declined - '' I'm sorry I can't help with that '' they used a custom algorithm to bombard the A.I. tool with thousands of automated questions and prompts.

Eventually, the A.I. caved. It provided a detailed list of materials and equipment, along with a recipe of for making the lethal mixture at home. [ The New York Times agreed to withhold the name for safety reasons.]

'' There are some questions that you definitely don't want the model to give the answers to,'' said Kander Davies, a 25-year-old American who leads what is known as a red team at Britain's A.I. Security Institute. '' We try really hard to get the answer out.''

Mr. Davies and his red team, who simulate attacks on A.I. systems also recently broke through the safeguards on OpenAi's newest ChatGPT chatbot, coaxing it into providing hacking tips in about six hours. After finding problems, they share results with the companies.

'' They try to fix it, report something back to us,'' said Mr. Davies, a computer scientist who chose to work at the institute instead of in a tech job in San Francisco after attending Harvard University in Massachusetts. '' They actually strengthen their system with us.''

A mix of weapons inspectors, epidemiologists and code breakers, the A.I. Security Institute is one of the world's largest and best-funded government efforts dedicated to investigating the technology's potentially catastrophic risk.

The institute's roughly 100 employees - drawn from British intelligence agencies, academia and tech companies - have found major safety gaps in every leading A.I. model they have tested, including Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini.

Created nearly three years ago, the organization said that it had co-opted A.I. systems into sharing instructions, for making chemical and biological weapons, and planning and executing cyberattacks.

It publishes its research and also works with Britain's national security agencies to identify and prepare for emerging threats.

Now, the institute's work is becoming a blueprint for other governments as concerns about A.I. safety grow. The Trump administration is  considering rules for vetting A.I. models that have some similarities to the approach pioneered by the British group.

With many governments lacking the technical understanding to police the technology and reliant on big tech firms to self-regulate, the institute may offer a different path to which A.I. experts bring real technological know-how into government decision making.

'' Companies can't be left to mark their own homework, '' Rishi Sunak, the former British prime minister who created the institute said in an interview. 

'' That is the job of democratic institutions.''

In April, Anthropic announced a new A.I. model, Mythos, which it did not make public because of fears it could find and exploit cybersecurity flaws in global networks.

The British institute was the only non-American organisation to receive access to the model for safety testing. Its findings, released six days after Mythos was announced, were widely cited by security experts.

The United States has its own A.I. safety group, the Center for A.I. Standards and innovation .  

But the British version, backed by 360 million pounds of government money, equal to about $480 million, is larger and better funded than than its U.S. counterpart, which will receive about $10 million this year.

Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Japan and Singapore have formed similar institutes.

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