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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

TechScape: Why is the UK so slow to regulate AI?

Rishi Sunak at the AI safety summit last November.
Rishi Sunak at the AI safety summit last November. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/EPA

Britain wants to lead the world in AI regulation. But AI regulation is a rapidly evolving, contested policy space in which there’s little agreement over what a good outcome would look like, let alone the best methods to get there. And being the third most important hub of AI research in the world doesn’t give you an awful lot of power when the first two are the US and China.

How to slice through this Gordian knot? Simple: move swiftly and decisively to do … absolutely nothing.

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