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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kiran Stacey and Rowena Mason

Rishi Sunak races to tighten rules for AI amid fears of existential risk

Government insiders admit there has been a shift in approach to artificial intelligence.
Government insiders admit there has been a shift in approach to artificial intelligence. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Rishi Sunak is scrambling to update the government’s approach to regulating artificial intelligence, amid warnings that the industry poses an existential risk to humanity unless countries radically change how they allow the technology to be developed.

The prime minister and his officials are looking at ways to tighten the UK’s regulation of cutting-edge technology, as industry figures warn the government’s AI white paper, published just two months ago, is already out of date.

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