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AI law expected in King’s speech
Justin Stanton Editor, CM Digital
The first King’s Speech after the election expected to include AI law (Image: Jakub Jirsak | Dreamstime.com)
Prime minister Kier Starmer’s plans will be laid out tomorrow in the first King’s Speech of the Labour government.
The speech will outline what the Labour party plans to do over the next 12 months. And it is widely reported it will include proposals to introduce the UK’s first law to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The party’s manifesto said it would be aiming “binding regulation” at the “handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models”. Labour also plans to create a Regulatory Innovation Office.
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However, it also pledged an industrial strategy that would “support the development of the AI sector” remove “planning barriers” to new data centres, and support innovation.
The creation of a National Data Library was also promised to bring AI research programmes together and “help deliver data-driven public services” while “maintaining strong safeguards and ensuring all of the public benefit”.
The EU already voted in its Artificial Intelligence Act in March, designed to improve safety and transparency but also support innovation. It is thought to be a world first and an AI Office is also being established alongside it.
Former Labour prime minister Sir Tony Blair told the Times newspaper that the Labour Party must embrace AI as it could fuel economic growth.
He told the newspaper: “The only gamechanger is the full embrace of the potential of technology, especially the new developments in artificial intelligence.”
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