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ARTICLE · 12 FEBRUARY 2025

What Does The Recent Fanfare Around AI Mean For Its Use By Regulators?

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The Government has made much of its recent "AI Opportunities Action Plan" ("the Action Plan"), with all the positive rhetoric focusing on how transformative and exciting AI will be in the coming years.

United KingdomTechnology
Nusrat Zar
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James Wood
James Wood
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Andrew Lidbetter
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Jasveer Randhawa

The Government has made much of its recent "AI Opportunities Action Plan" ("the Action Plan"), with all the positive rhetoric focusing on how transformative and exciting AI will be in the coming years. A key limb of this is the intention to scale up the use of AI in the public sector, i.e. by public bodies subject to public law requirements and with significant power over the lives and businesses of individuals and commercial organisations.

Regular readers (or listeners) of this blog will know that we have been highlighting the risks of public sector use of AI without sufficient safeguards for some time now, including in particular the risks of regulators using AI in compliance and enforcement activities in a way that is not transparent and may not necessarily align with their public law duties. It is striking that the Action Plan does not accompany the intention to increase public sector use with any formal limits or safeguards around that use.

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