29 / March / 2023 · United Kingdom · Institutional design

UK keeps AI principles with existing regulators, not an early statute

The March 2023 white paper states the five AI principles will start on a non-statutory basis and be implemented by existing regulators.

What the record establishes

Finding

The UK white paper keeps the principles non-statutory initially and assigns implementation to existing regulators.

Underlying policy record

Evidence

Primary record

UK white paper keeps AI principles non-statutory initially

The white paper states principles will be issued on a non-statutory basis and implemented by existing regulators.

We will not put these principles on a statutory footing initially. … Instead, the principles will be issued on a non-statutory basis and implemented by existing regulators.
UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · UK AI regulation white paper · paragraph 11

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Coverage gap

Later legislative hardening proposals sit outside the 2023 white paper text that this coverage quotes.

Method

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