AI should be licensed like medicines or nuclear power, Labour suggests

Clifford’s comments reflect growing concerns that policymakers have not paid enough attention to the risks that AI poses. Photograph: Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images

The UK should bar technology developers from working on advanced artificial intelligence tools unless they have a licence to do so, Labour has said.

Ministers should introduce much stricter rules around companies training their AI products on vast datasets of the kind used by OpenAI to build ChatGPT, Lucy Powell, Labour’s digital spokesperson, told the Guardian.