Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 108075

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 merits of making the testing of AI models a legal requirement to help prevent AI systems from being used to create child sexual

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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