UK Will Legislate Against AI Risks in Next Year, Pledges Kyle

The UK will bring in legislation to safeguard against the risks of AI in the next year, technology secretary Peter Kyle has said, as he pledged to invest in the infrastructure that will underpin the sector's growth. From a report: Kyle told the Financial Times' Future of AI summit on Wednesday that Britain's voluntary agreement on AI testing was "working, it's a good code" but that the long-awaited AI bill would be focused on making such accords with leading developers legally binding. The legislation, which Kyle said would be presented to MPs in the current parliament, will also turn the UK's AI Safety Institute into an arms-length government body, giving it "the independence to act fully in the interests of British citizens."

At present, the body is a directorate of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. At the UK-organised AI safety summit last November, companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic signed a "landmark" but non-binding agreement allowing partner governments to test their forthcoming large language models for risks and vulnerabilities before they were released to consumers. Kyle said that while he was "not fatalistic" about advancements in AI, "citizens need to know that we are mitigating the potential risks."

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[Black Parrot]

I'm kinda wondering what a law would say... "AI can't be dangerous!" ?

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[Luckyo]

Considering people currently in power, I would expect legal text to closely follow recent EU regulations.

keeping control

[will4]

Example from the UK of how social media outrage led to riots and demonstrations for what was later proved to be completely fabricated. The fabricator got herself 8 years in prison for her actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

That's from one person!

[will4]

And it started with one person.

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[nightflameauto]

"We're going to regulate it because we don't understand it and we fear it".

Maybe. Or maybe they're finally "catching up" to American regulation. "We're going to regulate it because we want to create barriers to entry for new players and protect the current players, who pay us a *LOT* of money to keep the field tilted in their favor."

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[Luckyo]

That definitionally requires incumbents in massively leading positions.

Those are absent in UK.

Kyle's mom

[fjo3]

is a b.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

Priorities

[Virtucon]

You are being flooded by illegal immigrants.
Your healthcare system is flooded and your citizens can't get routine care without planning months in advance.
Your citizens can't see a dentist.

Yet..

AI is the boogie man.

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[retchdog]

Well, yes. AI affects the existing wealthy. The other problems are for poors.

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[codebase7]

So most of the UK citizenry then?

Re: Priorities

[retchdog]

probably. why, is this a problem? (for anyone else i mean)

Peter Kyle?

[93 Escort Wagon]

It's too bad it wasn't Peter File [youtube.com].

non-binding agreement - so worthless

[Crenor]

non-binding agreement is just funny. make some actual rules - follow them, stick to them. Rules will be easy, fairly sure a few movies / books have already addressed this. Not that I trust them to make rules that would be helpful in any way...