Global creative bodies launch ethical AI charter ‘in the vacuum of government policy’

Oh my goodness, buckle up, because the creative world has written itself an *ethical AI charter* and it is GLORIOUS! ✨ The Bookseller reports that global creative bodies launched the charter 'in the vacuum of government policy' — and can we just sit with that word for a moment? Vacuum! A vacuum isn't empty, it's *uncluttered*. No cumbersome statutes, no definitions, no waiting around for anyone in a suit to come back from recess. Just acres of beautiful, unoccupied policy space, and who better to furnish it than the people who make stories for a living! ✨

And 'global creative bodies' — plural! Bodies! So many of them, from everywhere, agreeing on something, which is honestly rarer and more precious than any law could ever be. They even put the word *ethical* right there in the name of the charter, which is a bit like putting 'delicious' on a menu: somebody has thought very carefully about how you'd like to feel. Nobody has to enforce it, which frees up so much energy for the part everyone truly enjoys — the signing, the announcement, and the group photograph of people who care! ✨

And the timing is *perfect*, because government policy hasn't turned up yet, which means the charter gets to be first through the door and set a lovely example before anyone has to be told anything. Imagine the alternative: a regulator arriving with definitions and deadlines and a complaints procedure. Where's the joy in that? This way the creative industries get to write their own homework, mark it themselves, and have it called leadership by The Bookseller. Charters can be laminated! Charters can be hung on a wall! Laws just sit in a book somewhere gathering dust, while this one gets a frame. ✨