Rishi Sunak: AI firms cannot 'mark their own homework'

Governments must act to protect citizens from potential AI risks, prime minister tells the BBC.

By Tom Gerken & Imran Rahman-JonesMonitoring the risks posed by artificial intelligence is too important to be left to big tech firms, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.

So far countries are only starting to address the potential risks, which may include breaches to privacy, cyberattacks and the displacement of jobs. "We've already invested £100 million in our task force, which will become our Safety Institute," he said. Signed by 28 countries and the EU, it also says AI should be kept "safe, in such a way as to be human-centric, trustworthy and responsible".

"Elon Musk for a long time has both been an investor and developer of AI technologies himself," said Mr Sunak.

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