Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to work with technology companies and child safety agencies on regulatory frameworks for detecting child protection risks in artificial intelligence systems.

Illegal provisions have been in place since March, and additional protections for children since July of this year. Under the Online Safety Act, AI services that allow users to share content with one another or search live websites to provide results must protect all users from illegal content and children from harmful content.

The Government engages with a range of stakeholders on the impact of AI and will continue to act to address new and emerging AI harms. Through the Crime and Policing Bill we are introducing an offence to criminalise AI models which have been optimised to create child abuse material and have tabled amendments to support the stringent testing of AI systems for child sexual abuse material risks.