AI Governance Briefing — August 19, 2024
U.S. and UK AI Safety Institutes formalize a testing partnership, aligning evaluation protocols and compute sharing for high-risk models.
Executive briefing: On August 19, 2024 the U.S. Department of Commerce and the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding linking the U.S. AI Safety Institute and the UK AI Safety Institute to co-develop model evaluations and share testbed infrastructure.
Key governance signals
- Joint testing protocols. The institutes agreed to publish interoperable evaluation suites for frontier model robustness, including red-team playbooks and interpretability benchmarks.
- Compute cooperation. The MOU commits both governments to provide reciprocal access to secure compute clusters for third-party safety researchers vetted by the institutes.
- Industry participation. Frontier model developers (Anthropic, Google, Microsoft/OpenAI) will pilot the shared test protocols ahead of the 2025 AI Seoul Summit progress report.
Control alignment
- NIST AI RMF 1.0. Update Measure and Manage functions to reflect the joint institute metrics, ensuring evaluation coverage and reporting align with cross-border expectations.
- ISO/IEC 42001. Incorporate institute-issued evaluation guidance into AI management system controls for risk assessment, model release, and incident escalation.
Detection and response priorities
- Map existing red-team pipelines to the institutes’ evaluation templates; prioritise gap remediation where safety test coverage diverges.
- Establish data-handling agreements for any compute sharing with the institutes, ensuring export-control compliance and logging of test artifacts.
Enablement moves
- Nominate internal model evaluation leads to participate in institute workshops and contribute feedback on shared benchmarks.
- Coordinate with legal and policy teams to align transparency disclosures with future joint progress reports.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Commerce — U.S.-UK AI Safety Institute MOU
- UK Government — Landmark AI safety partnership announcement
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