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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 September 2026

Debate

Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill

Contribution

The omission of robust statutory AI governance from the Bill is not just an oversight; it is completely unsustainable. The noble Baroness, Lady Harding, made the very good point that what we really need is an AI Bill; and, depressing though it may have been, the noble Lord, Lord Holmes, gave us a history of the lack of action to date. We live and breathe in the desire to see some action in this area, but we are inevitably disappointed. Frontier AI models are expanding at exponential speed, doubling in capability every four months. We have crossed from passive chatbots into autonomous, agentic AI systems capable of executing multistep cyber operations.

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