The UK government has introduced an AI safety research program with grants up to £200,000 to enhance resilience against deepfakes, misinformation, and cyber-attacks, aiming to identify risks in frontier AI adoption in key sectors like healthcare and financial services, and build public trust to ensure safe AI systems for economic growth and public services, backed by around 20 projects initially and additional funding in subsequent phases.
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/uk-government-launches-ai-safety/