Government response to the Committee's report 'Large language models and generative AI'

This is the government's response, published 2 May 2024.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government says it agrees with the Committee that large language models will bring transformation comparable to the internet, and sets out its pro-innovation, pro-safety approach while stating it will not "rush to regulate".

• On legislation, the government agrees it would be too early for new primary legislation aimed solely at LLMs, but anticipates that all jurisdictions will "in time" want to place targeted binding requirements on the most capable AI systems.
• On a sovereign LLM, the government's "current assessment" is that it is "not suitable, and indeed may not be feasible" to develop one "at this stage", and it will continue to monitor the market.
• On regulators, it has announced £10 million to prepare and upskill them, and says it will work with departments and regulators to analyse and review potential gaps in existing powers and remits.
• On copyright, it agrees that law should provide certainty but will not comment on ongoing court cases, and says greater transparency is needed from AI developers about training data.

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