In a report published this week, the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended the government create a single AI regulator ‘with the teeth to ensure enforcement’ and a regulatory regime covering the whole AI lifecycle.
Legislation should be enacted, imposing a due diligence obligation at all stages of design, development and deployment to prevent risk to human rights. Moreover, some uses of AI should be banned outright because they are incompatible with human rights, including subliminal techniques and inappropriate use of profiling or biometric data, the committee said.
Committee chair Alex Sobel MP said: ‘We need these protections now.’
Law Society vice president Brett Dixon said: ‘Everyone including the legal profession requires clear guidance on AI. We need to know how the existing regulatory framework applies to data security, oversight, reserved legal activities and professional obligations.’
