AI LAW DELAYED

GRASSMONSTER SAYS:

AI LAW DELAYED – THE MACHINES CAN WAIT, POLITICIANS CAN’T DECIDE

The UK government has hit the brakes on its much-touted plan to regulate Artificial Intelligence, opting instead for what officials are calling a “more comprehensive framework” sometime later. Translation? Nobody’s quite sure what to do with the robots yet.

Ministers were supposed to bring in new rules this year to deal with the runaway world of generative AI – the kind that writes your emails, makes fake pop songs, and, let’s be honest, could probably run a council meeting better than the actual councillors.

But now, citing a need for “cross-party consensus,” the plans have been shelved until next parliamentary session. In reality, the delay smells less like strategy and more like hesitation wrapped in buzzwords.

Critics say this leaves the UK trailing behind Europe and the US, both of whom are already drafting laws to rein in big AI developers and protect against copyright theft, algorithmic bias, and the terrifying possibility of your dead gran’s voice narrating crypto ads on TikTok.

Industry insiders, meanwhile, are quietly relieved. The delay gives startups and tech firms more time to cash in before the red tape arrives. It’s a digital gold rush – and no one’s been asked to wear a seatbelt.

But beneath the shiny jargon and political posturing is a real dilemma: how do you regulate something that evolves faster than the law itself?

For now, it seems, we won’t. The government will continue to “consult stakeholders,” a phrase that roughly translates to “hope it doesn’t explode before we’ve figured it out.”

So while the machines keep learning, composing, painting, trading, spying and selling – Parliament will be learning how to legislate them at some point in the future.

What could possibly go wrong?

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Author: @grassmonster