AISI IS HIRING! It was less than a month ago that I became Director. I joined with the belief that AISI is a world-leading organisation, and living proof that government can build things that work. One month in and I'm even more bullish about the vital role @AISecurityInst plays in frontier AI security. I'm astounded daily by the talent, focus and commitment of the brilliant team I get to work with. There has never been a more urgent time to work on frontier AI security - independently, in the public interest. We have a lot of urgent work to do, our team is growing fast, and we need more brilliant people to fill those roles. Our Red Team uses adversarial machine learning techniques to find failures in alignment measures, control monitors, and misuse guardrails. They are massively scaling up all parts of the team: Alignment: Control: Misuse: AI capabilities in cybersecurity and autonomy are advancing faster than ever. Our Cyber & Autonomous Systems team assesses what frontier and open-weight models can really do - across cyber, autonomy and AI R&D. We're hiring a Cyber Security Engineer and Software Engineer to build the evaluations behind that work: CSE: SWE: Our Human Influence team studies how AI can shift human decisions and behaviour, using everything from RCTs to multi-agent studies. We're hiring an Engineering Lead to help us grow the ambition and pace of that research: We're also hiring exceptional Software Engineers at all seniority levels to join our Core Technology team, which works closely with researchers to build performant tools and infrastructure that enable and accelerate AISI's world-leading AI safety research:

The UK’s AI Security Institute is an organisation close to my heart. Back in 2023 I was involved in its conception and creation. It’s gone on to do incredible things. A genuinely world leading org that shatters the myth that government can’t do things. So I couldn’t be more delighted to say that I’ve been appointed as AISI’s next Director, working alongside the brilliant @NateBurnikell as its new Chief Strategy Officer. AISI is the world’s most respected organisation for understanding the risks from powerful AI. That is thanks to their superb team of dedicated civil servants and technical researchers. Special thanks to Adam Beaumont who has done a great job as AISI’s interim Director for the last 9 months. He returns to GCHQ having seen AISI go from strength to strength under his watch. I’m hugely grateful for that and excited to work with and learn from him. Last year I wrote about AISI and why its form and function is so important. You can read that piece on the link below - it gives a good flavour of why I’m excited to be joining. I’m looking forward to getting started in September.

Sam Altman: “we are now in the singularity—this is the moment. Ten years ago this was like a kind of far-off dream at best. It seemed very improbable. And now we’re actually in the moment that we used to talk about at the lunch table in a very not-serious way. And so the thing that drives me is I’ve been waiting for this my whole life, and I think it’s going to be incredible, hugely positive, awesome for the world. I’m excited to get to work on that. I also think some of the alternative visions painted by other companies are quite terrifying. I’m going to make sure that gets pushed against and is not what happens. But the main thing of what’s different than 10 years ago is that we’re actually in it. This is the real thing. I think it is both true that it is all one crazy exponential and any one moment is not like the tipping point, and also that we are somehow in another one of those decisive periods where the curve can go one way or another, like it was when we started 10 years ago.”