Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-Afl)

My Lords, I will briefly speak to the amendments from the point of view of anti-terrorism and national security. I do so with trepidation, having listened to the wonderful speeches that have been made thus far. I find it difficult to understand why there is an unwillingness to give the clarity that has been requested in this group of amendments, particularly on AI models. I note that the Minister, in response to the first group of amendments, said that AI could be in scope. Would it not be much clearer for all concerned if AI was specifically in scope? Ethically speaking—and this follows on from the noble Baroness, Lady Harding—I would have much preferred it if we had had a royal commission look at AI and say, “Here are the guardrails for the development of AI”, but for some unknown reason we are either unwilling or unable to do that as a nation. In its absence, Amendment 75 is very important because, from a national security point of view, we should adopt the precautionary principle. We live in very dangerous times. We have listened to experts such as Jonathan Hall KC say very clearly that we need to take it into account. I say to the Minister that it would be helpful to hear from the Government how they intend to deal with AI as it moves forward and gets bigger and bigger. Surely we should have that ethical and moral conversation about where the guardrails are.