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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Don t wait for post office style scandal before regulating ai ministers told - The Untold Story

Rishi Sunak speaking during a closing press conference on the second day of the UK Artificial Intelligence Safety Summit, at Bletchley Park.
The government said at a summit in November that tech firms had agreed to cooperate on testing their most sophisticated AI models. Photograph: Toby Melville/AP

Ministers have been warned against waiting for a Post Office-style scandal involving artificial intelligence before stepping in to regulate the technology, after the government said it would not rush to legislate.

The government will acknowledge on Tuesday that binding measures for overseeing cutting-edge AI development are needed at some point – but not immediately. Instead, ministers will set out “initial thinking for future binding requirements” for advanced systems and discuss them with technical, legal and civil society experts.

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