Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to enable private sector companies to manage the risks associated with artificial intelligence.

Following Wendy Hall and Jerome Pesenti’s review of artificial intelligence, “Growing the artificial intelligence industry in the UK”, published in October 2017, we are creating an AI Council to promote and oversee strategic coordination of AI across the UK. Part of this framework includes a Centre for Data and Ethics to oversee issues facing companies who do business digitally.

We recognise the need for UK regulation to keep pace with new technology: we want more regulators to work creatively with startups and we have taken steps to encourage this via a new £10million Regulatory Pioneers Fund.