Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 98531

Artificial Intelligence: Safety

Tabled: 9 December 2025
Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

Sarah Olney

Liberal DemocratRichmond Park

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has considered the potential merits of the mitigation of potential future risks from non-human, autonomous AI systems which may evade human oversight and control.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
AI systems have the potential to pose novel risks that emerge from models behaving in unintended ways. The possibility that this unintended behaviour could lead to loss of control over advanced AI systems is taken seriously by many experts and warrants cl...

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