Kanishka Narayan on Governments should fund open-source AI …

Kanishka Narayan

UK Minister for AI and Online Safety; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

The UK, through AISI, has developed the world’s most widely used government-backed evaluation tools. Inspect, InspectSandbox, InspectCyber, and our latest release, ControlArena, are now being used by governments, companies, and academics around the world. These open tools lower the barrier to high‑quality evaluation and make safety science accessible at scale.

AI Verified source (Feb 10, 2026)

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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 The quote praises government-backed, open AI safety evaluation tools for lowering barriers and making safety science broadly accessible, which clearly implies support for governments backing/funding such open safety tooling infrastructure as a public good, even if 'fund' is not stated verbatim. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote praises existing "government-backed evaluation tools" and says "These open tools lower the barrier" and "make safety science accessible at scale," but it does not explicitly say governments should fund such tools, nor does it clearly address red-teaming infrastructure as public goods. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic: the GOV.UK transcript "Minister Narayan AI speech at Founders Forum" contains the exact wording at lines 320–322, and the same page identifies Kanishka Narayan as the speaker and says the speech was delivered on 10 February 2026 (with publication on 12 February 2026). The stored source URL matches the page, and the stored date matches the speech-delivery date. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/minister-narayan-ai-speech-at-founders-forum)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Disputed The GOV.UK speech page exists and attributes the remarks to Kanishka Narayan MP, delivered on 10 February 2026. It contains a near-match, but not the exact quoted text: the official transcript reads, “Inspect, InspectSandbox, InspectCyber, and our latest release, ControlArena, are now being used …” followed by “These open tools lower the barrier to high‑quality evaluation and make safety science accessible at scale.” Because your version omits “our latest release,” (without marking an omission such as [...]) and changes punctuation, it is not verbatim. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/minister-narayan-ai-speech-at-founders-forum)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Quote attributed to Kanishka Narayan (UK Minister for AI and Online Safety), year 2026. Source URL (gov.uk speech page) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote essentially verbatim from his AI speech at Founders Forum (10 February 2026) at that exact gov.uk URL: "The UK, through AISI, has developed the world's most widely used government-backed evaluation tools. Inspect, InspectSandbox, InspectCyber, and our latest release, ControlArena, are now being used by governments, companies, and academics around the world. These open tools lower the barrier to high-quality evaluation and make safety science accessible at scale." Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current. Vote alignment correct: statement "Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods" is voted "for," matching the Minister's celebration of UK government-developed open AI safety/evaluation tools made freely available at scale. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

If the right mechanism and lever changes in time and it feels like regulation might be a way that helps us do that, of course, we will look at it.

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The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth

A key consideration will be whether AI gains are broadly shared across regions, income groups, sectors and generations and that the opportunities are accessible, regardless of background, gender or geography.

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Kanishka Narayan abstains