Ian Hogarth on Governments should fund open-source AI …

Ian Hogarth

UK AI Safety Institute chair

[...] we are open sourcing our Inspect platform. [...] having a shared, accessible approach to evaluations. [...] a building block for AI Safety Institutes, research organisations, and academia.

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Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods.

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AI Verified Relevant: in context, the quote is from a UK government announcement about the state-backed AI Safety Institute releasing its Inspect evaluations platform under an open-source licence and making it freely available as shared, accessible infrastructure for safety evaluations. That is directly about government-backed open-source AI safety tooling as a public-good resource, which makes a determinate stance on the full statement substantially more likely even though the quote does not restate every element verbatim. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-safety-institute-releases-new-ai-safety-evaluations-platform)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified He says they are “open sourcing” Inspect and want a “shared, accessible approach to evaluations” that can be a “building block” for institutes and academia. In the source, Inspect is a state-backed UK AI Safety Institute platform released under an open-source licence and presented as wider safety-testing/tooling infrastructure, so the most likely stance is support for governments backing such open AI-safety infrastructure as a public good, even though “fund” and “red-teaming” are inferred from the government-run testing-platform context rather than stated verbatim. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-safety-institute-releases-new-ai-safety-evaluations-platform)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The GOV.UK press release published on 10 May 2024 labels the passage as a statement by AI Safety Institute Chair Ian Hogarth, and the source URL itself contains the quoted fragments verbatim within his quoted remarks; the ellipses only omit intervening text, so the stored author, date, and source URL are correct. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-safety-institute-releases-new-ai-safety-evaluations-platform)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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