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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre is planning a cyber defence system that will see AI agents “run national-level operations on behalf of the country" – and it wants help. The NCSC has called for industry and academic partners to help it build a national fleet of
Britain plans to build another "AI supercomputer", while training a sovereign model backed by HSBC and BAE on the existing Isambard.
The tax authority's contact centre will soon be hosted on a “purpose-built UK sovereign cloud”.
Control systems – and the entire software supply chain – needs work too, but even air-gapping isn't sufficient mitigation, Congress told.
"Code produced with public money should be open and reusable by default, with limited, justified exceptions."
A ready-to-use prototype of the National Data Library (NDL) from the Open Data Institute shows the way forward. But first...
"A blueprint for how the UK government deploys AI at scale"?
The US may want at least a first peek at any powerful model before release.