Artificial Intelligence: Safety
Commons · Question 28426 · Tabled 9 Sep 2026 · Cabinet Office · Official record
Answered 18 Sep 2026
Question
Asked by Matt Vickers
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what assessment his Department has made of the biosecurity risks arising from increasingly capable artificial intelligence models; and what safeguards are in place to assess and mitigate those risks before advan
Answer
Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 18 Sep 2026
The AI Security Institute works proactively with frontier laboratories to test the capability of AI models and advise them on where safeguards can, and should, be strengthened to prevent biological risks emerging. The UK Biological Security Strategy sets ...