UK to prioritize AI on G20 agenda, announces U.S.-UK AI defence partnership

Prime Minister Andy Bernham described frontier AI as "one of the most significant challenges and opportunities of our age" and announced a developing AI defence partnership with the United States to protect critical national infrastructure. "I am announcing today that we are developing a new AI defense partnership with the United States to protect our critical national infrastructure," he said.

Bernham said fundamental decisions about AI must be made by elected governments, not left to chance, and pledged to put AI at the center of the UK's G20 presidency next year to work toward common global principles and standards. He compared the needed rapid global response to the coordinated 2008 G20 financial response as a model for urgent, practical cooperation.