Report Warns: Credibility Lacking in UK's Approach to AI Safety

July 18 2023
The UK government’s approach to AI safety regulation has been criticised by independent research-focused Ada Lovelace Institute in a report suggesting 18 recommendations to improve its policy. Despite statements of its ambition to be an AI superpower, the government’s refusal to pass new domestic laws regulating AI applications and its plans to reform data protection laws could undermine AI safety. The research institute also criticised the government’s proposal of letting existing, sector-specific regulators adapt to AI without any new legal powers or extra funding. The report calls for an expensive definition of AI safety, concerned with real-world AI harms rather than theoretical future risks.
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