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Amendments 422D, 433 and 438, together with the noble Baroness’s other amendments, seek to create a new criminal framework for AI chatbots. They would establish new offences for creating, supplying or making available chatbots capable of generating illegal terrorist and other content and would provide that suppliers of chatbots that generate illegal content, as defined by the OSA, be deemed to have committed an offence and to be criminalised. These offences would carry penalties of up to five years’ imprisonment and would be linked into the Online Safety Act. I recognise the intent behind those, but the offences would criminalise individuals without requiring intent or knowledge and treat risk assessment and mitigation as a defence, which I think is of concern.