DARPA helps drives technological progress in the US forward. If the EU wants to create a similar agency, key changes will be needed.

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    17 days ago

    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)