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Developers working on artificial intelligence should be licensed and regulated similarly to the pharmaceutical, medical, or nuclear industries, according to a representative for Britain\u2019s opposing political party.<\/p>\n
Lucy Powell, a politician and digital spokesperson for the United Kingdom\u2019s Labour Party told The Guardian on June 5 that firms like OpenAI or Google which have created AI models should \u201chave to have a license in order to build these models,\u201d adding:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy real point of concern is the lack of any regulation of the large language models that can then be applied across a range of AI tools, whether that\u2019s governing how they are built, how they are managed or how they are controlled.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Powell argued regulating the development of certain technologies is a better option than banning them similar to how the European Union banned facial recognition tools.<\/p>\n
She added AI \u201ccan have a lot of unintended consequences\u201d but if developers were forced to be open about their AI training models and datasets then some risks could be mitigated by the government<\/p>\n
\u201cThis technology is moving so fast that it needs an active, interventionist government approach, rather than a laissez-faire one,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\nAhead of speaking at the TechUk conference tomorrow, I spoke to the Guardian about Labour\u2019s approach to digital tech and AI https:\/\/t.co\/qzypKE5uJU<\/p>\n