The government has delayed until summer publication of its AI Bill, a new law intended to regulate AI, following on from the EU AI Act which came into force last year.

The government had been expected to introduce such a bill shortly after it was elected in July, which would have demanded that companies provide their AI models to the UK’s AI Security Institute for testing. The aim of the bill was to assuage fears that AI could pose a risk to humanity, or be misused by nefarious actors by having new models vetted by the Institute.

However, fears of a backlash by the new American administration have repeatedly delayed the introduction of the bill, which has now been put back to summer at the earliest.

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