Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment the Government has made of the potential impact of the Chinese state's activity relating to genomics on national security; and whether that matter will be discussed at the UK AI safety summit scheduled for November 2023.

The Government does not comment on specific details of national security assessments. The AI Safety Summit will focus on safety risks in ‘frontier’ AI which includes issues of emerging importance such as biosecurity and genomics. During the first day of the AI Safety Summit, there will be a roundtable discussion on the Risks to Global Safety from Frontier AI Misuse where safety risks to biosecurity will be discussed.