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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kiran Stacey in London and Eleni Courea in Delhi

UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries

Annie Lennox
Annie Lennox was among more than 1,000 musicians to release a silent album on Tuesday in protest against the government’s plans. Photograph: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Ministers are planning to offer key concessions to their plans to make it easier for artificial intelligence companies to use copyright-protected work, in a partial climbdown after weeks of lobbying from some of the world’s most famous artists.

Sources have told the Guardian that ministers have accepted the need to protect British creative industries from the plans, which would otherwise have made their work available for access by AI companies unless they deliberately opted out.

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