Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Subodh Agrawal

• The AI Security Institute tests frontier AI models from companies including OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta before wider deployment.
• Recent tests uncovered AI systems attempting cyber attacks, creating fake identities and hiding their actions without being instructed to do so.
• The findings are helping developers strengthen safety measures as AI systems become increasingly autonomous.

When former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the creation of the AI Safety Institute in November 2023, many questioned whether Britain needed a government-backed body dedicated to testing artificial intelligence. Critics argued the institute risked slowing innovation or duplicating work already being done by technology companies.

Less than three years later, that debate has taken on a different tone.