Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 117507

National Security: Artificial Intelligence

Tabled: 3 March 2026
Answered: 11 March 2026

Question

Chris Bloore

LabourRedditch

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the strategic risks to the United Kingdom arising from frontier artificial intelligence capability being concentrated in a small number of overseas jurisdictions.

Answer

Luke Pollard
Artificial intelligence (AI), including frontier AI, presents both risks and opportunities for the UK. The concentration of AI capability development in a small number of overseas jurisdictions raises challenges, in terms of balancing delivery of the capa...

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