Burnham Unveils £1.3 Billion Disinformation Pushback, Seeks Global AI Standards
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 23
Burnham Unveils £1.3 Billion Disinformation Pushback, Seeks Global AI Standards
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 23
Summary
At the UN, Andy Burnham said Britain will create a National Centre for Information Defence to detect and disrupt AI-enabled disinformation campaigns by hostile states.
Burnham said the move responds to Russian information warfare that costs the Kremlin about £1.3 billion a year and uses bots, fake websites and forged branding from 28 British organisations.
He paired the security push with a pledge to use the UK's 2027 G20 presidency in Manchester to press for global AI principles on transparency, access and safe development.
That effort faces a major obstacle: more than 20 countries back a separate declaration on human control and mandatory frontier-model testing, but the US, China and the UK have not signed it.
Trump underscored the divide at the same UN session, rejecting any 'globalist scheme' to control AI even as London says legislation remains possible if voluntary testing proves insufficient.