Tag: AI governance
169 articles tagged AI governance
IOPC investigates Derbyshire detective over Copilot use in cases
A Derbyshire Constabulary detective faces a gross misconduct inquiry over claims Microsoft Copilot was used for risk and policy decisions and fed case data.
Law Society tells solicitors to inform clients about their AI use
A new 58-page Law Society practice note says solicitors stay accountable for AI-assisted work and can ask clients to disclose AI-generated material they supply.
G7 finance chiefs agree tabletop exercises for AI-driven cyber attacks
G7 finance ministers and central bankers have signed off simulations to test how they would respond to AI-driven cyber attacks, Japan's finance minister said.
400 scientists call for a global body to oversee AI containment
An open letter signed by Hinton, Bengio and about 400 others wants air-gapped frontier models, shared containment standards and a public register of incidents.
Alex Murray confirmed as director of the national PoliceAI centre
Alex Murray OBE has been confirmed as director of PoliceAI after a College of Policing recruitment, taking charge of the £75m national centre for AI in policing.
Bank of England's Bailey wants a right to intervene in frontier AI
Andrew Bailey says testing, not new rules, should come first, as the FPC notes AI hyperscalers made up 47% of sterling corporate bond issuance this year.
Hinton, Bengio and lab figures warn of an AI intelligence explosion
A 20-plus author paper, including OpenAI's chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder, says automated AI research could compress years of progress into months.
Burnham tells the UN the UK will lead on global AI standards
In his UN speech the prime minister set up an information-defence centre against Russian disinformation and offered Britain as an honest broker on AI, hours after Trump said no.
Wales's Office for AI shifts from planning to helping bodies adopt
After a baselining exercise found Welsh public bodies duplicating AI work, the Welsh Government unit is now positioning itself as a national coordinator.
Senedd research finds Wales boxed in on AI regulation
A briefing sets out the awkward position: Welsh public services are adopting generative AI fast, but data, IP and internet law are all reserved to Westminster.
Gartner tells CIOs the frontier labs are not enterprise grade
Analysts say models with six-month lifespans and no legacy support fail basic enterprise tests, and that 86% of CIOs see AI risk outpacing the value it delivers.
Observatory wants ethnicity performance data in NHS AI contracts
The NHS Race and Health Observatory wants suppliers to report AI accuracy by ethnic group, with minimum standards below which a product cannot be bought or must be pulled.
Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to pacing AI alongside rivals
OpenAI's chief floated a coordinated slowdown as a new board member said the industry is off track on catastrophic risk. Competition law may be the real obstacle.
Firms are logging AI use as if each prompt needed consent
Guidance for conveyancers argues lawful basis is settled once per purpose, and that the compliance effort belongs somewhere far more useful instead.
UK bosses think they can diagnose AI failures. Engineers disagree
A survey of 238 UK decision-makers found a 25-point gap between executives and engineers on whether AI failures can be traced automatically.
Uber drivers sue over the algorithm that sets their pay
A claim covering about 241,000 UK and EU drivers alleges Uber's pay-setting AI breaches GDPR and cut British drivers' annual earnings by roughly £5,000.
US pushes G20 to leave AI alone as Britain sits between blocs
Washington asked delegates in North Carolina to sign principles ruling out new AI-specific regulation. China signed. The EU's approach was attacked by name.
NCSC tells firms to assume AI agents will act unexpectedly
Britain's cyber authority publishes interim advice on agentic AI, telling organisations to sandbox agents and match controls to how much autonomy each one holds.
UK bosses hit an autonomy cliff when AI touches money
Expleo research finds trust falling from 73% for summarising documents to 43% once AI is signing off financial or budget approvals on its own.
Sainsbury's names a head for its AI centre of excellence
James Anstruther arrives from GSK to run the grocer's AI centre of excellence, a sign that UK enterprises are giving the technology permanent internal structure.
Barclays engineer says AI agents need kill switches by design
The bank's principal AI engineer puts telemetry, permission boundaries and programmatic kill switches ahead of model capability for agents in production.
Trump says Congress wants to regulate AI out of business
The president's remark lands the same week NIST proposed federal AI evaluation guidelines and UK regulators widened what banks must prove about AI.
Singapore tells banks that AI policies are not a control
A new agentic AI framework argues governance committees and human sign-off cannot substitute for continuous technical testing of autonomous systems.
Brussels opens talks with OpenAI and Anthropic over hacks
Both labs briefed the Commission privately before going public, as the AI Act's obligations for high-risk systems took effect on 2 August.
Law firm leaders overestimate their grip on shadow AI
Research from Access Legal found 60% of fee-earners use unapproved AI tools, while 68% of firm leaders believe they have full visibility and zero risk.
Xi pitches China as leader of a new global AI order
Xi Jinping cast China as the champion of open-source AI at the World AI Conference, a day after 29 countries founded a Shanghai-based AI cooperation body.
FCA reopens AI Input Zone, demanding evidence — not theory — from UK banks
The Financial Conduct Authority is pressing UK financial firms to evidence AI governance and assurance in live operations, with submissions to the AI Input Zone open until 19 June 2026.
Bar Standards Board publishes AI guidance for barristers after fabricated-citation case
The BSB has issued tiered AI guidance for barristers following the Ayinde fabricated-citation case, requiring competence checks before tools are adopted.
Eight in 10 enterprises report production failures from AI-generated code, CloudBees finds
A CloudBees survey of 200+ tech leaders found 81% reporting more production issues from AI-generated code as verification fails to keep pace with output.
QBE: 75% of UK firms fear supplier AI risk but only 28% audit suppliers
Insurer QBE finds 75% of UK businesses are worried about supplier AI cyber risk but only 28% of AI-using firms audit how their third parties deploy the technology.
Pope Leo launches Vatican AI commission ahead of first encyclical
Pope Leo XIV is creating a Vatican commission on AI to coordinate the Catholic Church's response, with his first encyclical expected to set an ethics-based AI agenda.
UK Regulating for Growth Bill targets AI sandboxes in King's Speech
The UK government has set out a Regulating for Growth Bill expanding AI regulatory sandboxes and giving departments new powers to repeal outdated technology rules.
UK CIOs say AI adoption is outrunning their governance, Logicalis finds
96% of UK CIOs fear AI-driven data leakage and 62% are unprepared for the EU AI Act, according to a Logicalis survey published this week.
EU welcomes OpenAI cybersecurity-model access offer; Anthropic in talks
Brussels says OpenAI has offered open access to its cybersecurity model under an EU Cyber Action Plan led by George Osborne; Anthropic is not yet there.
NCSC publishes ten questions to ask before using AI to find vulnerabilities
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has set out a structured checklist for organisations considering using AI models to discover vulnerabilities.
UK financial services lacks shared AI governance standard, Zango report warns
Lloyds, Monzo and Stripe leaders warn that UK FS firms are solving AI governance independently. US and Singapore have sector-specific standards; the UK does not.
Fewer than 1 in 4 UK charities have approved AI policies, report warns
Charity Excellence Framework finds AI use among UK charities accelerating faster than trustee oversight — risking a public-trust gap.
US DOJ backs xAI lawsuit against Colorado's AI regulation
The Justice Department has intervened in xAI's challenge to Colorado SB 24-205, escalating a federal-state fight over US AI rules.
Lloyd's Market Association publishes AI governance toolkit
The LMA has issued a five-theme AI Adoption Toolkit as a survey of 60% of Lloyd's market stamp capacity shows governance frameworks becoming the norm.
Bank replaces 12-person QA team with AI and books $6m loss from zero-price bug
A financial firm that disbanded its QA department for automated testing lost roughly $6m after an erroneous discount code pushed product prices to zero.
MoJ pilots Justice Transcribe for family courts as lawyers call for child safeguards
Ministry of Justice tests in-house AI against accuracy, cost and safeguarding thresholds, with Law Society pushing retained audio and bias evaluation.
DfT publishes bias-mitigation design for Gemini-based consultation analysis tool
Alan Turing Institute report shows how DfT's Consultation Analysis Tool uses LLM-as-a-judge, human review and explicit demographic safeguards.
MPs told UK has 'outsourced' AI to US billionaires as China positions as responsible actor
Commons business and trade committee hears UK AI development is dominated by US hyperscalers while Beijing backs global governance talks.
PwC: 20% of companies capture three-quarters of AI's economic value
A new PwC study of 1,217 executives finds a stark divide between AI leaders reinventing their businesses and the majority still stuck in pilot mode.
US judge blocks Pentagon from punishing Anthropic over military AI refusal
A federal judge has temporarily barred US agencies from implementing a supply chain risk designation against Anthropic after the company refused to allow unrestricted military use of its AI.
US Treasury publishes AI risk framework for financial services
New guidebook from 100+ financial institutions offers structured controls for AI governance, from bias monitoring to incident response procedures.
AI Workflows Need Human Oversight to Deliver Real Value, Says Datatonic
Cloud consultancy Datatonic warns that organisations deploying AI without proper human-in-the-loop systems are seeing productivity losses rather than gains.
Standard Chartered Legal Head Flags Urgent Push for AI Stress Testing
Standard Chartered's head of legal for financial markets warns UK regulators and banks must treat AI stress testing as an urgent priority after MPs found the sector unprepared for an AI-driven market shock.
Financial Institutions Move From AI Experiments to Operational Integration
Banks and insurers are shifting from generative AI pilots to agentic workflows that run processes within strict governance frameworks.
UK Regulators Tell MPs They Need More Resources to Tackle AI
Senior UK regulators warned Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights that funding shortages, not legal powers, are the main barrier to effective AI oversight.
FCA Launches Long-Term Review of AI in Retail Financial Services
The UK financial regulator is examining how AI could reshape consumer relationships, market competition and regulatory frameworks, with recommendations due this summer.
Police Chief Resigns After AI Hallucination Influences Decision
West Midlands Police chief retires after Microsoft Copilot generated fictional football match report that influenced a ban on Israeli fans.
Mind the Gap: Ada Lovelace Institute's 2025 AI Reality Check
New research reveals 84% of UK public believe government prioritises tech companies over citizens on AI regulation, as promised legislation stalls and real-world deployments show mixed results.
Oxford University and UBS Launch Joint AI Research Centre
The new Oxford-UBS Centre for Applied AI will focus on governance, financial services applications, and AI model development with a team of 20 researchers.
Australian Chief Justice Warns AI Use in Courts Reaches 'Unsustainable Phase'
High Court Chief Justice Stephen Gageler says judges now act as 'human filters' for machine-generated legal arguments as AI proliferates in litigation.
Shadow AI: The Next Frontier of Unseen Enterprise Risk
Unsanctioned AI tool usage by employees introduces data leakage, compliance violations, and regulatory liability as organisations lack visibility into how, where, and why AI is deployed.
Two-Thirds of Executives Violate Own AI Usage Policies, Survey Finds
Nitro survey reveals 68% of C-suite leaders bypass corporate AI tools they've invested millions in, whilst half of employees also use unapproved AI applications.
CDAO Role Evolves as AI Strategy Shifts to Executive Priority
Chief Data and Analytics Officers face mounting pressure to deliver measurable AI ROI as organisations transition from data management to strategic AI enablement and agentic intelligence.
Enterprises Scaling GenAI Beyond the Hype
How large organisations are moving past GenAI disillusionment through product-aligned operating models and strategic frameworks that deliver measurable business value.
One-Size-Fits-All AI Guardrails Fail Enterprises, Expert Argues
Knostic co-founder explains why enterprises need persona-based access controls that tailor AI responses by role and context, not blanket content filters.
AI in the Workforce: Embracing a New Kind of Teammate
Agentic AI systems require persistent identities, trust frameworks, and motivation structures as organisations welcome autonomous digital teammates into the workforce.
Building Trust in AI: Keeping Humans in Control of Cybersecurity
BackBox CEO Rekha Shenoy advocates for AI as decision-support tool rather than autonomous actor in cybersecurity, emphasising transparency and responsible deployment.