UK starts drafting AI rules

[Hanno Labuschagne]

UK starts drafting AI rules

The UK is starting to draft regulations to govern artificial intelligence, focusing on the most powerful language models which underpin OpenAI’s ChatGPT, people familiar with the matter said.

Policy officials at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are in the early stages of devising legislation to limit potential harms caused by the emerging technology, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing undeveloped proposals.

[Bloomberg]

 

[_TrXtR_]

Ah yes, create laws that the law abiding people have to follow.... genious

 

[DapperDanMan]

If they are using AI to do all the legwork in compiling these drafts, will that be an ethics issue retroactively, after the AI becomes sentient?

 

[DapperDanMan]

devising legislation to limit potential harms caused by the emerging technology

Well ... better luck next time, humanity!

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