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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Michael Savage Policy Editor

AI tools used for child sexual abuse images targeted in Home Office crackdown

Officers from Hertfordshire Police hold evidence bags containing mobile phones after conducting a raid to arrest two individuals suspected of contacting children online.
Officers from Hertfordshire Police hold evidence bags containing mobile phones after conducting a raid to arrest two individuals suspected of contacting children online. Photograph: Jacob King/PA

Britain is to become the first country to introduce laws tackling the use of AI tools to produce child sexual abuse images, amid warnings from law enforcement agencies of an ­alarming proliferation in such use of the technology.

In an attempt to close a legal ­loophole that has been a major ­concern for police and online safety campaigners, it will become illegal to possess, create or distribute AI tools designed to generate child sexual abuse material.

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