In its white paper outlining its policy on AI regulation, the UK government has called for “responsible use” while avoiding the introduction of what it calls innovation-stifling “heavy-handed legislation.”
Though there is some legislation and regulation in the UK that is of potential application to AI, the UK government is now consulting on imminent cross-sectorial regulation. The UK government’s March 2023 white paper The UK government set out its proposals for the regulation of AI in a March...
For example, the working group at the Copyright Officerecently failed to agree on a voluntary codearound the use of copyrighted material in AI training. If this deadlock drags on, should the central government step in to take over (and if so...
Patents for inventions devised by AI The Government has no present plans to introduce changes to the UK's patent inventorship criteria. As such, the Government's response endorses theCourt of Appeal ruling concerning the Dabus machinethat under UK law an AI machine cannot be named as an invent...
The government has pumped £23m into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data conversion courses for young and underrepresented groups, as the UK aims to be the industry leader. There will be up to two thousand scholarships for masters AI conversion courses, and the aim is to create a new gen...
Changes to intellectual property (IP) laws to account for the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems will be proposed by the UK government before the end of the year, while an overhaul of the approach to regulating AI in the UK is also under government consideration. ...
Not everyone is convinced by the U.K. government's approach to regulating AI. John Buyers, head of AI at the law firm Osborne Clarke, said the move to delegate responsibility for supervising the technology among regulators risks creating a "complicated regulatory patchwork full ...
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The Government is fully behind this work, identifying AI as one of five critical technologies essential for making the UK a global science and technology superpower. Just last month, LawtechUK brought together lawyers, technologists, regulators, and other experts to explore what generative AI means ...
The UK Government passed the Investigatory Powers Act at the close of 2016, which overhauled the country’s surveillance and hacking powers. This Act introduced regulations regarding law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access and actions. However, it was widely decried due to its impact on ...