Prime minister due to wrap up AI safety summit at Bletchley Park as Labour calls for urgent regulation
Good morning. This afternoon Rishi Sunak will be wrapping up the AI safety summit at Bletchley Park with a press conference. The summit has already produced the Bletchley Declaration. But, with the government saying it will not “rush to regulate”, the event is not producing domestic UK law. Labour has spotted an opportunity and this morning it is saying that it would “urgently” impose new regulations on companies involved in so-called “frontier” AI (the most advanced type).
Peter Kyle, the shadow science secretary, said:
AI has the potential to transform the world and deliver life-changing benefits for working people. From delivering earlier cancer diagnosis, to relieving traffic congestion, AI can be a force for good.
But to secure these benefits we must get on top of the risks and build public trust. It is not good enough for our ‘inaction man’ prime minister to say he will not rush to take action, having told the public that there are national security risks which could end our way of life. The AI summit was an opportunity for the UK to lead the global debate on how we regulate this powerful new technology for good. Instead the prime minister has been left behind by US and EU who are moving ahead with real safeguards on the technology.
A Labour government would urgently introduce binding regulation of those companies developing the most powerful ‘frontier’ AI . This would include requirements to:
-Report before they train models over a certain capability threshold.
