Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what action they are taking to ensure that artificial intelligence labs prevent chatbots from discussing suicide with teenagers.

Every death by suicide is a tragedy and the government is deeply concerned about the role that online content can play.

Services in scope of the Online Safety Act have duties to protect all users from illegal suicide content and protect children from harmful content that encourages, promotes, or provides instructions for suicide. This includes regulated AI-generated content.

The government keeps all legislation under review and will not hesitate to strengthen the law, where required, to protect children.