8 Realities, 8 Billion Reasons to Regulate.
The UK urgently needs an approach to AI that puts humans in charge and humanity at the heart. It can, and must, be pro-innovation, pro-investment, pro-consumer, pro-creative, pro-citizen rights.
Let’s be completely clear, AI is already impacting our lives, across our society and economy, often without us even knowing it was in the mix. AI offers an incredible opportunity but what about harm mitigation, public engagement and a capability building, cross-sector regulatory approach?
It is these very questions of public trust and optimising the opportunities that lead me to introduce my private members bill – the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill (Nov 2023). I drafted the Bill with a focus on adaptive regulation, inclusive design, ethical standards, transparency, accountability, education, awareness and international cooperation.
The aim was to pro-actively engage the public, fellow parliamentarians and the government with the ideas, and legislative steps, we need to take to ensure we shape AI positively for all our benefit.
This report continues that effort and sets out the current reality of eight individuals at the sharp end of this under-regulated part of our modern world. Whether it’s discrimination and bias in AI algorithms, disinformation from synthetic imagery, scams using voice mimicking technology, copyright theft or unethical chatbot responses we are already facing a host of problems from existing AI.
If we get it right we afford ourselves more than a chance to thrive with this most powerful, most promising of new technologies.
For the 8 realities set out in this report: the voter, the scammed, the benefit claimant, the job seeker, the teenager, the creative, the transplant patient and the teacher. For the 8 billion citizens of our ever more connected world. For economic, social, and psychological benefit.
It’s time to legislate, together on AI, it’s time to human lead. Our data, our decisions, our AI futures.
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