Will The UK Change Its Course On AI Regulation?

Draft legislation that would prohibit the “development, deployment and operation of artificial superintelligence systems” has been introduced into UK Parliament as a private member's bill (the UK Artificial Superintelligence Security Bill). The draft legislation seeks to establish a framework for monitoring and restricting precursors to superintelligent AI systems, and promote progress towards international consensus on the prohibition of the most powerful AI systems.

Despite the absence of a universally accepted definition of artificial intelligence, the bill defines artificial superintelligence (“ASI”) as an “AI system which can cause serious damage to the security of the United Kingdom because of its capability to neutralise, displace, circumvent, subvert, or render ineffective relevant human authorities in the exercise of their functions”.