UK launches Information Defence centre and pitches global frontier-AI standards at the UN
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first major UN General Assembly speech to announce a National Centre for Information Defence and to pitch Britain as an “honest broker” on global frontier-AI standards. Burnham told the Assembly that Russia spends about £1.3bn a year manipulating information — via bots, fake sites, and forged branding of British organisations — and that AI will multiply that threat. The new centre is meant to detect, attribute and disrupt AI-enabled hostile-state disinformation, working with intelligence agencies, government, law enforcement and social platforms. On AI…
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