Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to balance the interests of artificial intelligence  (AI) companies with the rights holders in the development of policies and regulations related to AI and copyright laws.

The Government is engaging with the AI and rights holder sectors to develop an approach on AI and copyright that allows both sectors to grow together. We want to work closely with right holders and AI developers to deliver this. Any approach will need to be underpinned by trust and transparency between parties, with greater transparency from AI developers about use of copyrighted material to train AI models and the attribution of outputs having an important role to play. The Government will soon set out further proposals on the way forward.