EU Technological Sovereignty Package

Viscount Colville of Culross Excerpts
Monday 20th July 2026

(1 week, 3 days ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Lloyd of Effra Portrait Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab)
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The AI Security Institute is one of the pre-eminent institutions in the UK in AI development and the transformations we are seeing. It works very closely with other AI security institutes. I think it was only two weeks back that it was meeting other similar institutions, developing common standards and approaches to assessment, which is one of the important ways that we keep a baseline across the globe for how we should appraise frontier models as they are developed.

Viscount Colville of Culross Portrait Viscount Colville of Culross (CB)
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My Lords, when the Government support a UK sovereign AI fund, will UK government investment be focused on models trained only on properly sourced and remunerated material?

Baroness Lloyd of Effra Portrait Baroness Lloyd of Effra (Lab)
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The AI sovereign fund invests in companies based in the UK. They must adhere to UK law, including UK copyright law, for those investments made in the UK.