UK MPs hear AI labs split on binding rules

U.K. AI hearing: Anthropic and OpenAI told the House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee on Oct. 13 that voluntary pledges were no longer enough to ensure AI safety and that new laws should be introduced, while Google DeepMind and Meta declined to back new legislation, Wired reported. Lord Booth-Smith, Anthropic’s head of Europe, Middle East and Africa policy, said binding rules were needed, and OpenAI’s Tom Duff Gordon backed mandatory elements starting with incident reporting, according to Wired. Owen Larter of Google DeepMind pointed to standards and Meta’s Rob Sherman to Britain’s existing regulators, the magazine reported. The committee, chaired by Liam Byrne, said it has also begun written questioning of AI minister Kanishka Narayan on the government’s approach.