Global cooperation needed to tackle AI threats, says Bank of England governor

The brief

The Bank of England governor has called for international cooperation to tackle growing AI threats, warning that the US and Trump administration would not be able to achieve their ambitions alone. Andrew Bailey’s comments come weeks after the US president, Donald Trump, temporarily banned foreigners from using Anthropic’s powerful Claude Mythos model. Speaking to the Guardian before a speech to financial bosses at the annual Mansion House dinner in London, Bailey said governments around the world must join forces to ensure bad actors did not get hold of powerful – and potentially destabilising – digital tools. “We’ve got to get better international understandings of how we deal with the introduction…