Select committee calls for bill to address AI threat to human rights

The report concerns the threat AI poses to human rights, and the committee's chair is named in the excerpt as Alex Sobel MP.

Sobel said: 'Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose.' As described in the excerpt, the committee calls for a new bill on AI, rather than changes to existing law, in order to address the scale and seriousness of the threats. The excerpt does not set out the provisions such a bill would contain, nor a date by which the committee believes it should be introduced.

The committee's conclusion places the UK alongside every other jurisdiction, since the quote states that no country currently has a legislative or regulatory approach that is fit for purpose. The report thus identifies a gap between the legislation that exists and the threats the committee describes. The excerpt includes no response from the UK government, no indication of whether ministers intend to bring forward legislation, and no timetable for a bill. It also does not name any specific AI system, company or practice as the subject of the committee's concern.