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As calls for regulation grow, the UK’s artificial intelligence rulebook remains a work in progress, write Nick Smallwood & Paul Knight
When riding a runaway train, presumably the protocol is to look down the track in terror. Perhaps we should be relieved, then, that leading industry figures have recently called for a pause on the development of frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models.
While Amodei, Altman & co are considering where the AI locomotive ought to go next (and whether to install some brakes), now seems as good a time as any to reflect on the UK’s evolving approach to AI regulation.
Does the UK need an AI Bill?
A Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) report published last month recommended that the government introduce a new AI Bill in order to:
- Classify AI systems into different risk levels, and mandate proportionately more demanding obligations for higher-risk AI systems and AI models.
- Impose proportionate obligations on actors at all stages of the AI lifecycle and supply chains to ensure that risks are identified, evaluated and effectively addressed.
- Prohibit
