MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation
No single body coordinates regulation of AI, leaving gaps that could make it difficult for people harmed by AI to obtain legal redress.Committee chair Alex Sobel MP said the speed and complexity of AI development made its impact hard to predict. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "What is clear is that at present we are unprepared to deal with its consequences however potentially dire they may be. Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose.
- ▪No single body coordinates regulation of AI, leaving gaps that could make it difficult for people harmed by AI to obtain legal redress.Committee chair Alex Sobel MP said the speed and complexity of AI development made its impact hard to pre
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); "What is clear is that at present we are unprepared to deal with its consequences however potentially dire they may be.
- ▪Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose.
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