The Prime Minister has travelled to Hiroshima, Japan, where he is expected to speak to the countries present at the G7 summit about the need for a global approach to regulating AI technologies.
Speaking with journalists on the plane to Tokyo, Sunak said that AI is beneficial to the UK but must be introduced “safely and securely with guardrails in place”.
“We have taken a deliberately iterative approach because the technology is evolving quickly and we want to make sure that our regulation can evolve as it does as well,” he said.
“I think that the UK has a track record of being in a leadership position and bringing people together, particularly in regard to technological regulation in the online safety bill … And again, the companies themselves, in that instance as well, have worked with us and looked to us to provide those guardrails as they will do and have done on AI.”
The statement comes amid growing concerns over the rapid development of generative...