UK stalls on AI safeguards in Cyber Security Bill

UK officials told MPs that amendments addressing AI risks in the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill remain under consideration, despite ministerial pledges to legislate where necessary. Hearings warned of autonomous AI worms and said model developers cannot be trusted to self-regulate.

• AI amendments to the Cyber Security Bill have not yet been tabled
• Official Alexandra Jones says AI risk policy is still being developed
• Anthropic warns small models could become IoT worms
• Experts say developers cannot be trusted to self-regulate