AI Security Institute: Staff
(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source
Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what is the (a) current and (b) planned (i) headcount and (ii) FTE staffing for the AI Security Institute.
Answered by
Kanishka Narayan
Minister of State (Cabinet Office) (Jointly with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Technology)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026
The headcount of the AI Security Institute is 243, equivalent to 227.8 full time equivalent (FTE) posts (as at 12 October 2026). This includes over 100 technical frontier AI specialists in the Institute’s Research Unit.
The AI Security Institute’s future staffing is managed in line with the budget it was allocated in the Spending Review, and is kept under regular review so that it is resourced to deliver its priorities.