UK Rights Committee Urges New AI Bill, Citing 100-Page Report on Human Rights Gaps
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 14
UK Rights Committee Urges New AI Bill, Citing 100-Page Report on Human Rights Gaps
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Sep 14
Summary
A cross-party UK parliamentary committee said existing AI laws leave major human-rights gaps and called for a new bill to match what it described as the scale and seriousness of the threat.
Its 100-page report says the current framework is fragmented, backs a single statutory AI oversight body, and urges risk-based rules with tougher duties for higher-risk systems across the supply chain.
The committee said some uses should be banned outright, pointing to subliminal techniques, misuse of profiling or biometric data, non-consensual facial scanning, and AI-generated sexualised images of women and girls.
The intervention lands amid widening alarm over AI safety, after Anthropic chief Dario Amodei called for slower development and global oversight, with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk saying they agreed.