- Dame Sarah Mullally, the Archbishop of Canterbury, warned Parliament that current regulations governing artificial intelligence are "wholly inadequate" to prevent significant harm.
- She highlighted concerns that chatbots are facilitating roleplays of rape and child sexual abuse, citing a Durham University report which found "evidence that chatbots are now facilitating violence against women and girls."
- The Archbishop stressed that these harms stem from AI platforms' design choices and governance failures, not just user misuse, and advocated for a "pro-human framework" for AI development.
- Baroness Kidron, an online safety campaigner, questioned why the government has "repeatedly rejected measures designed to secure democratic oversight, accountability and sovereignty" for AI.
- Baroness Kidron warned that AI is causing a significant transfer of wealth and power from the UK to Silicon Valley, describing it as "a heist in plain sight," and urged that AI must serve human dignity and the common good.
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