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Eleventh Report - Connected tech: AI and creative technology
Culture, Media and Sport Committee
HC 1643
Published 30 August 2023
Recommendations
1
Accepted
Para 19
Clarify how non-tech sector regulators will build AI expertise and ensure joined-up working.
Recommendation
We welcome the Government’s sensible proposals for regulating AI, including taking a sectoral approach underpinned by six cross-sector principles. However, there are outstanding weaknesses with this approach that the Government should clarify, including ensuring that sector regulators who do not …
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Government Response Summary
The government recognises the need for central coordination for AI regulation and has already established a central risk function and is implementing a coordination function across government departments, with further details to be provided in their response to the white paper consultation.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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7
Accepted
Provide substantive update by year-end on managing AI's impact on creative industries.
Recommendation
The Government’s initial handing of the text and data mining exemption to copyright for AI development, though eventually correct, shows a clear lack of understanding of the needs of the UK’s creative industries. All branches of Government need to better …
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Government Response Summary
The government highlights its existing Creative Industries Sector Vision and significant investments, including over £300 million in growth support and £75 million for the CoSTAR programme, to drive innovation and technology in the creative industries. It also mentions ongoing assessments and being informed by a Council for Science and Technology report.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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10
Accepted
Para 55
Urgently clarify the scope and timescale for the Cultural Education Plan.
Recommendation
The Government’s Cultural Education Plan Expert Advisory Panel has only recently been appointed, almost a year after the appointment of its chair and well over six months after Government said it would appoint its members. We have serious misgivings about …
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Government Response Summary
The government clarified the scope and five objectives of the Cultural Education Plan, outlining the types of organisations it will cover. It committed to publishing the Plan "in the coming months."
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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