U.S. chipmaker NVIDIA has pledged to provide the United Kingdom with $250 million in computing resources over five years to support AI safety research, Reuters reports. The initiative is intended to advance the country’s ambition to become a global hub for developing safety standards and assessing the risks posed by AI.

The United Kingdom is pursuing that goal in part through the AI Security Institute, one of the first government bodies established to evaluate the technology, according to the report.

Testing agentic AI systems

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said the United Kingdom will receive $50 million in accelerated computing resources each year. Researchers will use the capacity to test the safety of agentic AI systems and develop safeguards for increasingly powerful models.

“AI capabilities and safety must advance together,” Huang said.

Huang said the United Kingdom is turning scientific leadership into practical solutions and scientific progress into a future that benefits people.

Attention to AI safety has increased following reports from developers, including Anthropic and OpenAI, of uncontrolled or undesirable behavior by AI agents. Some industry figures have also warned that the technology could pose an existential threat to humanity.

UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan said NVIDIA’s contribution would help ensure the development of safe and trustworthy AI that serves people’s interests.

Research projects

NVIDIA’s computing resources will support several research tracks in the United Kingdom. They include BOLD, a project led by the University of Oxford that is developing approaches to training, adapting and operating AI systems alongside humans.

The commitment will also cover robotics safety research at Imperial College London and programs at University College London.

NVIDIA previously unveiled a platform for controlling AI agents.

Source: Incrypted