Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 66916

Artificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tabled: 11 July 2025
Answered: 21 July 2025

Question

Sarah Champion

LabourRotherham

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that AI technologies which fall outside the scope of the Online Safety Act are subject to appropriate regulatory oversight of their potenti

Answer

Feryal Clark
We are committed to ensuring our laws keep pace with technology and are building on the Online Safety Act by taking further action in the Crime and Policing Bill to criminalise AI models which have been optimised to create child sexual abuse material.As s...

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