UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan announced that the government will be using frontier AI models including Gemini 4 Argon to find vulnerabilities within government systems and fix them to protect essential services before attackers weaponize these models
The statement by AI Minister Kanishka comes after the UK government successfully negotiated with the Trump government for access to frontier models of US based AI companies.
Speaking at Imperial College London’s science and tech incubator, Base One on Monday, AI Minister Kanishka Narayan informed that frontier AI models have already identified and addressed 1,352 vulnerabilities across 548 code repositories in 18 government departments.
“Our central vulnerability monitoring service has already helped reduce the time taken to fix identified weaknesses from 50 days to just 8. Built on these advances, today I am announcing that the DCMS cyber minister, Security Minister and I will lead the urgent use of frontier AI capabilities to find weaknesses within government systems before attackers exploit them, protect essential government systems, and respond more effectively to emerging threats. I want Britain to become one of the hardest countries in the world to attack using artificial intelligence,” said Kanishka.
Citing example of the recent hack of Australian government’s medicare portals by autonomous agents of OpenAI, Minister Kanishka said that there remains little doubt over the capabilities of frontier AI models.
“The Australian government has said that no personal medical records are known to have been accessed..But the incident should concern us. It concerns me. It seems likely, if not inevitable, that our own cyber defenses will be breached,” said Kanishka.
Kanishka also informed that the UK government will explore strengthening the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill and the wider regulatory framework to better protect essential services, including hospitals and utilities from emerging AI related threats. This includes AI loss of control risk, where autonomous AI systems evade human oversight.
“We will use every power at our disposal. We will legislate wherever necessary. And we won’t look to law alone. We will look to British ingenuity: our scientific expertise, technological capabilities and institutions to understand these increasingly powerful systems, defend against emerging threats and respond when things go wrong,” said AI Minister Kanishka Narayan.
In July the UK government launched an AI taskforce, chaired by Lord Vallance to drive economic growth, transform public services and oversee the implementation of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s AI agenda.
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