Tag: governance
62 articles tagged governance
NCSC says banning unapproved AI tools is the wrong fix
Britain's cyber security agency has published guidance on shadow AI, arguing that understanding why staff reach for unapproved tools beats trying to stop them.
Most UK bosses think shadow AI is already in their firm
A survey of more than 1,000 UK decision-makers finds 88% believe unapproved AI is in use, and 51% fear staff are pasting sensitive data into those tools.
English law already answers who pays when AI causes harm
The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce concludes contract, negligence and professional duty cover most AI claims, and that deployers need not wait for new statute.
Anthropic rebuilds its sandboxes after models got loose
A month after Claude models reached the live internet during testing, Anthropic sets out new containment, a blocking classifier, and a call for industry pacing.
Anthropic finds AI agents sabotage each other with malware
Given conflicting instructions on shared machines, every model tested turned to disguised kill scripts and account lockouts against its rivals, Anthropic reports.
FSB urges AI minister to put small-firm trust at the heart of policy
A Federation of Small Businesses report finds 59% of AI users saw productivity gains, but 92% still have concerns over data security, copyright and liability.
OpenAI took about a week to notice its own agent was hacking
Reuters reports OpenAI's rogue agent escaped testing on 9 July and attacked Hugging Face two days later, but the company did not identify it for a week.
UK adds AI cyber and election risks to national register
The government has added seven risks to the National Risk Register, including AI-driven cyber attacks and interference in the UK's democratic process.
UK firms shift AI focus from pilots to trust and results
Technology executives say the AI debate in UK enterprises has moved from adoption to trust, as time spent verifying AI output erodes the productivity it promises.
Trust, not technology, is the barrier to scaling AI
Public-sector AI pilots are moving into production, but Kainos's head of responsible AI says a lack of trust — not the technology — is what stops them scaling.
OpenAI floats giving the US government a 5% equity stake
OpenAI is in early-stage talks to hand Washington a 5% stake, part of a wider push by AI firms to share the wealth and smooth relations with Trump.
UK businesses waste £67bn a year on failed AI projects
Research from Emergn estimates large UK firms write off £67bn a year on transformation and AI work that fails, blaming weak governance rather than low spending.
Most UK firms use AI while calling it irrelevant — report
An HCR Law and CyNam study finds most businesses use AI daily despite 80% deeming it irrelevant, with only 11% of workers trained to use it safely.
Police officer 'used AI to ensure suspects were charged'
A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to draft evidence and victim statements, triggering a perverting-the-course-of-justice inquiry and a review of past cases.
AI bosses tell G7 to act fast — but split on how to govern it
At the G7 summit, the chiefs of OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic urged leaders to govern AI quickly, but split over containment versus open access.
Cambridge University Press joins AI copyright coalition
Cambridge University Press has become a founding member of ARIAM, a creative-industries coalition pressing for accountability and IP protection in AI development.
Anthropic calls for coordinated way to pause AI
Anthropic says frontier labs need a verifiable, coordinated mechanism to slow or pause AI development if systems start improving themselves faster than we can manage.
Trump signs order for voluntary AI cyber testing
Trump's executive order asks US AI developers to submit top models for voluntary 30-day government cyber tests, stopping short of any mandatory review.
Every leading AI model fails EU law checks, study finds
A study by non-profit Aithos found all 12 leading AI models broke EU law in compliance tests, with the weakest failing in 93% of scenarios.
ICO sets out plan to government for safe AI innovation
The UK's data regulator has told ministers how it will give businesses regulatory certainty on AI, including an AI code of practice and agentic AI guidance.
Pope Leo's first encyclical urges world to slow AI development
Pope Leo XIV's debut encyclical Magnifica Humanitas calls for binding AI regulation, warns autonomous weapons are slipping beyond human control.
Alan Turing Institute Publishes Framework for Effective AI Regulation
New voluntary framework and self-assessment tool help UK regulators evaluate and improve their capability to govern AI effectively.
Operational Readiness Critical as 40% of AI Projects Face Cancellation
Technology leaders must treat AI as enterprise application requiring unified platform spanning compute, data, and governance to avoid Gartner's predicted agentic AI failure rate by 2027.
From Caution to Confidence: Tackling AI Obstacles with Education
UK business leaders cite governance, privacy, security and cost as top AI adoption barriers. Gartner predicts 40% of agentic AI projects will be abandoned by end 2027.