DARPA helps drives technological progress in the US forward. If the EU wants to create a similar agency, key changes will be needed.
DARPA helps drives technological progress in the US forward. If the EU wants to create a similar agency, key changes will be needed.
Back under Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings was a very vocal advocate of the UK setting up something similar (though he referenced ARPA, DARPA’s predecessor, which wasn’t explicitly-military).
The result of that was ARIA being set up last year.
He was also very interested in advanced artificial intelligence work, so I kind of imagine that funding that was a goal.
https://www.aria.org.uk/
I don’t know if all their work is public, but looking at that website, it looks like they’re publicly working on:
Genetic engineering of plants
Robot dexterity
Analysis of “tipping points” caused by climate change
Safeguarded AI research (how to “contain” advanced artificial intelligences)