British lawmakers call for stronger AI laws

British lawmakers and OpenAI have found something they can agree on: artificial intelligence has become too important and potentially harmful to govern without a real legal framework. The country has long promoted what it deemed a flexible, middle-ground approach to regulating AI through a mix of existing regulators and voluntary agreements by developers. But now, Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights has issued a long and detailed report calling for an expansive bill covering AI, enforcing transparency and compliance via an independent regulator. The pressure goes considerably further than ordinary complaints about AI chatbots. More than 70 MPs and peers have separately backed calls for Britain to prohibit the development and operation of AI.