In the first progress update we published about the Taskforce, we announced the first seven expert board members, and details about the first partnerships we have made. The Taskforce is the progenitor for the recently announced AI Safety Institute, which the PM announced on the 26th of October. As such, the Taskforce will transition into a new structure to establish the UK as a global hub for advanced safety research and enable the responsible development and deployment of this transformative technology. Membership of the External Advisory Board includes: • Yoshua Bengio. Yoshua is most known for his pioneering work in deep learning, earning him the 2018 A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun. He is a Full Professor at Université de Montréal, and the Founder and Scientific Director of Mila – Quebec AI Institute. • Paul Christiano. Paul is one of the leading researchers in the field of AI Alignment. He is co-founder of ARC, the Alignment Research Centre and previously ran the language model alignment team at OpenAI. • Matt Collins. Matt is the UK’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Intelligence, Defence and Security. He has been in the civil service for 18 years, in a variety of roles covering national security, online harms and crime reduction. • Anne Keast-Butler. Anne is the director of GCHQ. Anne has an impressive track record at the heart of the UK’s national security network, helping to counter threats posed by terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers. • Alex van Someren. Alex is the UK’s Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security. Alex was previously a venture capital investor and entrepreneur, focusing on investing in early stage ‘deep technology’ startups. • Helen Stokes-Lampard. Beyond national security and AI research expertise we are also excited to build an advisory board that can speak to critical uses of frontier AI on the frontlines of society. Helen is not only a practising General Practitioner observing how conversational AI tools can impact day to day medical diagnoses but also an incredibly experienced leader across the UK’s medical community, having Chaired the Royal College of General Practitioners and currently Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. • Matt Clifford. Matt is the Prime Minister’s joint Representative for the AI Safety Summit, Chair of ARIA and co-founder of Entrepreneur First. His appointment as Expert Advisory Board Vice Chair demonstrates the level of coordination across UK initiatives around frontier AI - including the Taskforce and the AI Safety Summit. The overarching objective of the Taskforce - to enable the safe and reliable development and deployment of advanced AI systems - has only become more pressing. The Taskforce will therefore become a permanent feature of the AI ecosystem. The Institute will continue the Taskforce’s safety research and evaluations. The other core parts of the Taskforce’s mission will remain in DSIT as policy functions: identifying new uses for AI in the public sector; and strengthening the UK’s capabilities in AI. On public sector pilot projects, the Government’s ambition is to use AI confidently and responsibly, where it matters most. The Government are committed to supporting departments with an ambitious approach to the adoption of AI to improve public services and boost productivity and the government will release further details in due course. Existing work to use AI in public services has been supported, with the Department for Education providing up to £2 million to Oak National Academy to improve and expand Artificial Intelligence tools for teachers and make curriculum content available to companies wanting to build AI edtech tools based on the English national curriculum. Another example is the Department of Health and Social Care where benefits are already being seen through AI use in getting support to those who need it. They used the technology to identify language indicating mental distress in public social media posts. This was then used to signpost people to the NHS-endorsed Every Mind Matters’ digital support hub, leading to a 25% increase in people accessing the vital service.