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Earl Russell (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 22 January 2026

Debate

Artificial Intelligence: UK Preparedness

Contribution

My Lords, the director-general of MI5 recently publicly warned that it would be reckless to ignore AI’s ability to implement harm, particularly from autonomous systems that are free of human oversight. Anthropic recently detected the first documented large-scale cyber espionage campaign using agentic AI. Given that we are entering an era when AI systems change tasks together and make decisions with minimal human input, what specific mechanisms are the Government establishing to maintain meaningful human control over increasingly autonomous AI systems, before we effectively lose the ability to do so?

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