The Urgent Need for UK AI Legislation – Now

In this Parliamentary One-Pager (POP) launched in the House of Lords on 3rd February 2026 I make the case for an AI Bill. 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. The Current Approach: …

All-Party-Parliamentary-Group on AI

End of Year Round-Up 2022 has been a busy year for the APPG AI – as the buzz around the new Chatbot ChatGPT – has demonstrated, this technology is developing at pace and the use cases are increasingly visible and impressive. As all the speakers at an event in Parliament this week (6th December 2022) stressed – …

AI Policy Debated in House of Lords

I was delighted to take part in a debate in the House of Lords highlighting the work of our Select Committee on AI. Our original report, AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?, was published in 2018 and made a large number of recommendations to the government. A follow up report was published in …

21st Century Frictionless Trade – Lords debate UK EU Trade Agreement

“My Lords, there exists a need, there exists an opportunity, a pressing need, a potentially transformational opportunity. The need for a border fit for the 21st Century, the opportunity; a digitally enabled, free trade flowing, free trade growing border delivered by the best of our talent deploying the best of our technologies. Artificial Intelligence, Distributed …