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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 September 2026
Debate
Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) BillContribution
Finally, on the AISI point—we will probably come back to it a little bit in the next group—a few months ago AISI dropped the societal harms piece of its remit. That was largely due to pressures within government. As much as I recognise that it was set up to do one thing, it is very much at the behest of whoever is immediately pulling the strings. I think that there was a very deep understanding among those who were concerned about this issue that the frontier companies were much more comfortable talking about future security risks, which are a little way ahead and about which we can say we do not know what is going to happen, than the societal risks, which are happening right now. So I think that on both of these things we will be back, but I am grateful for the offer of a discussion.
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