A report by Conservative peer Lord Holmes emphasizes the urgent need for UK legislation on artificial intelligence (AI) due to its negative effects on people's lives. Holmes introduced a private members bill proposing adaptive regulation, ethical standards, transparency, and international cooperation in November 2023, acknowledging the technology's under-regulation. Specific harmful examples, such as biased algorithms and scams, illustrate the urgent need for protections. Holmes affirms that the call for regulation is even more critical now than when he first proposed the bill in 2023, highlighting the growing urgency as AI continues to evolve.
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.
I believe it remains even more pressing today to regulate AI when I initially proposed my private members bill back in 2023.
The technology remains largely under-regulated, which is allowing a range of harms to flourish unabated, highlighting the urgent need for effective protections.
His proposed AI bill could address the issues at hand for people living at the sharp end of unregulated AI in the UK.
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