Cross-party committee of UK MPs and peers that scrutinises legislation and policy for compliance with human rights obligations; it can report but not legislate.
British Transport Police is extending a £320,786 facial recognition trial that scanned over 500,000 faces and produced one false alert and no arrests. Its public defence leans on arrests officers made during deployments that its own performance data leaves out.
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A Saturday post promises an "AI Force" and an AI czar while ruling out new brakes on the industry, so AI misuse gets handled under laws already on the books. Leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI have asked for mandatory limits instead.
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights wants stricter duties on higher-risk systems and an oversight body written into law. OpenAI says it would accept a narrow frontier-only law on security risks. The two asks name different companies.
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The joint committee on human rights wants legislation, a single regulator and transparency across the AI life cycle. Automated flagging of worker discipline sits on its list of threats, and the enforcement it describes is aimed at providers.
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights says no country's rules on AI are fit for purpose, and it wants a statutory oversight body, tiered duties across the supply chain and some uses banned outright. It can only recommend.
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