Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 108074

Artificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse Material

Tabled: 23 January 2026
Answered: 2 February 2026

Question

Victoria Collins

Liberal DemocratHarpenden and Berkhamsted

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of making the testing of AI models a legal requirement on the use of AI systems to create child sexual abuse material.

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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