Computerworld July 18, 2024
John E. Dunn

For now, the new government will focus only on regulating development of the largest and most powerful models used for generative AI.

As Britain’s King Charles III stood up in the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday to present the new Labour government’s proposed legislative program, technology experts were primed for any mention of artificial intelligence (AI).

In the event, amidst the colorful pomp and arcane ceremony the British state is famous for in the state opening of Parliament, what the speech delivered was mostly a promise of future legislation shorn of any detail on the form this will take.

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The King’s Speech is where Britain’s elected government, in this case the recently elected Labour administration, lays out bills...

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