Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she will update the House on her plans to regulate LLMs/AI Chatbots providing therapeutic interventions.

As outlined in the government’s progress statement following the ‘Growing up in the online world’ consultation, we received responses which felt that chatbots could play a beneficial role in supporting children’s wellbeing. However, we also heard concerns about how these services can provide children with harmful, misleading, or inaccurate advice.

Following the publication of the progress statement, we plan to come forward with further measures in July.