Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Oliver Heald Excerpts
Wednesday 21st February 2024

(9 months, 1 week ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michelle Donelan Portrait Michelle Donelan
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The risks of AI are still emerging, so the priority of this Government is keeping pace with those risks, to keep the public safe. That is why we have an agile, sector-specific approach, utilising our world-leading regulators, whereas the Opposition keep calling for legislation on an area they do not understand.

Oliver Heald Portrait Sir Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire) (Con)
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Does the Secretary of State agree that one important thing about the Bletchley conference was that it enabled international co-operation on interoperability and a common approach? Does she also agree that that will enable regulators to co-operate internationally?

Michelle Donelan Portrait Michelle Donelan
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I absolutely agree with what my right hon. and learned Friend says, and I call it the “Bletchley effect”; we have seen action taken in other nations across the world since our world-leading first ever AI global summit on safety.