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The government lab keeping AI safe is fighting mold, floods and pests
Even as it races to set up the new U.S. AI Safety Institute, the crisis at the degrading lab is becoming more acute. On Sunday, lawmakers released a new spending plan that would cut NIST's overall budget by more than 10 percent, to 1.46 billion. While lawmakers propose to invest 10 million in the new AI institute, that's a fraction of the tens of billions of dollars tech giants like Google and Microsoft are pouring into the race to develop artificial intelligence. It pales in comparison to Britain, which has invested more than 125 million into its AI safety efforts.