UK Opposition: AI Should be Regulated Like All Other Industries
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly subject to regulatory scrutiny. And it seems like things will only get stricter.
U.K. MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Powell believes that no one’s exempt from regulation.
Representing the opposition to the current Conservative government led by PM Rishi Sunak, she told the Guardian that firms like OpenAI or Google that have created AI models should “have to have a license in order to build these models.”
She believes that AI technology is so fast-paced that it needs the government to intervene. It cannot be burgeoning in a laissez-faire style.
“My real point of concern is the lack of any regulation of the large language models that can then be applied across a range of AI tools, whether that’s governing how they are built, how they are managed or how they are controlled,” she said.
Powell believes that it is better to allow the technology to develop, in spite of “unintended consequences”, rather than resort to actions like that of the EU, which banned facial recognition tools.
She claims that the Labour Party is already developing AI legislation and other relevant technologies and is set to give a speech to industry insiders at the TechUK conference in London, noting that AI could disrupt the UK economy as much as the deindustrialisation of the 1970s and 1980s.
Labor leader Keir Starmer is likewise slated to talk about AI during London Tech Week next week. He will also hold a shadow cabinet meeting in one of Google’s UK offices next week.
The general elections are expected to take place in 2024.
Previously, Gagarin News explained why people are worried about AI.
