AI: Intellectual Property Rights

Baroness Featherstone Excerpts
Thursday 9th May 2024

(5 months, 4 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Viscount Camrose Portrait Viscount Camrose (Con)
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Perhaps my noble friend will forgive me if I gaze into a crystal ball for a moment and predict that the eventual solution to this will involve three elements: first, some modifications to our copyright legislation; secondly, some use of technology to enable a solution; and thirdly, internationally accepted standards of interoperability in any eventual solution. We engage widely with techUK and other technology partners, but above all we engage extensively internationally. I point to our specific engagements with the World Intellectual Property Organization, the UN agency the ITU, and of course the follow-up to the AI Safety Summit, which we are co-hosting in Seoul in a couple of weeks’ time.

Baroness Featherstone Portrait Baroness Featherstone (LD)
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My Lords, what action are the Government taking to compel AI companies to implement measures to monitor and report IP infringements?

Viscount Camrose Portrait Viscount Camrose (Con)
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One of the principles we set out in our AI White Paper is transparency. That principle—repeated across the OECD and in the EU’s AI Act—will go a long way towards doing what the noble Baroness asks. There are, though, a number of technical difficulties in implementing transparency—not legally, from our side, but rather, the computer science problems associated with processing the very large quantities of data required to generate true transparency.