Labour: we will build a tech economy

Also Labour: we proactively understand technology better than you do

> Labour’s manifesto outlined plans to “ensure the safe development and use of AI models by introducing binding regulation on the handful of companies developing the most powerful AI models”.

Peter Kyle, the new technology and science secretary, said earlier this year that he was hoping to introduce a “statutory code” that would compel companies to release “all of their test data” and “tell us what they are testing for”.

Regulators, including the UK competition watchdog, have become increasingly concerned about the potential harms of AI technologies. These range from the possibility that algorithms could bake in biases that affect marginalised demographics, to the potential use of general-purpose models to create harmful materials.

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