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Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Publisher description: Microsoft President Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
TechCrunch | Oct 12, 2026 | Rebecca Bellan
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Britain’s AI Security Institute, launched in 2023, receives access to major models from U. S. frontier labs before they are deployed and has quickly become a leader in AI safety testing. Last month, Trump hosted tech leaders of companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, AMD, SpaceX, Meta and Google at the White House to discuss AI safety. Smith outlined several AI safety rules he’d like to see put into place, like a legal obligation to alert an organization if its system was breached by rogue AI agents.
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