According to the House of Lords Select Committee's report on AI, the UK "is in a strong position to be a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence" and with this comes some required element of regulation.

The EIT Health Consultative Group, which includes as a member Professor Theodore Christakis (AI Regulation Chair at MIAI and co-director of the Grenoble Alpes Data Institute), submitted this report to provide informed views on the European Commission’s Data Strategy and AI White Paper. Submission by Austria, Brazil, and Chile to the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, Proposal for a Mandate to Negotiate a Legally-binding Instrument that Addresses the Legal, Humanitarian and Ethical Concerns Posed by Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), U.N. Doc.

The committee is appointed to consider the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence Britain's artificial intelligence sector could get a boost from Brexit if the country can escape from "poorly-constructed" regulations being drafted in the EU, experts have said.

Britain needs to lead the way on artificial intelligence regulation, in order to prevent companies such as Cambridge Analytica setting precedents for dangerous and unethical use of … Speaking at an event in London in February this year, Mark Holmes, chief executive of tech firm Waymark, explained how artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated into existing systems to scan and dissect the reams of regulation sent to firms daily. However, regulation has often lagged behind - sometimes very far behind - new technology. Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence Report of Session 2017–19 HL Paper 100 AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

According to the House of Lords Select Committee’s report on AI, the UK “is in a strong position to be a world leader in the development of artificial intelligence” and with this comes some required element of regulation. The UK government recently established the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) as a specific statutory body aimed at researching issues of AI and its regulation. This recognition is reflected in both the UK’s Artificial Intelligence Sector Deal and the European Commission’s review on AI strategy, which state that if they fail to actively develop and attract the AI industry, they risk being relegated to the role of a consumer of other countries’ AI solutions (HM Government 2018; EU Commission 2018). CCW/ …

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