Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 106783

Artificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tabled: 19 January 2026

Answered: 27 January 2026

Question

Iqbal Mohamed

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of bringing forward legislative proposals to require the mandatory testing of generative AI models to ensure they cannot produce ch

Answer

Kanishka Narayan

The government is committed to tackling the creation of this atrocious material. Creating, possessing, or distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), including AI Generated CSAM, is illegal. The Online Safety Act requires services to proactively iden...

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