Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey called for an international treaty to "press pause on super-intelligent AI" and proposed a new "International AI Safety Agency" modelled on the International Atom…
UK ministers under then-prime minister Keir Starmer ordered a review of existing legislation and explored forcing the world's most advanced AI companies to submit products for safety testing before la…
Protesters from PauseAI and Pull The Plug gathered outside Downing Street in London on Wednesday, 16 September, demanding tougher controls on advanced artificial intelligence after Anthropic researche…
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney held their first bilateral meeting in Liverpool, agreeing that governments and the tech sector must partner to ensure online…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter dated 11 September 2026 backing Labour MP Alex Sobel's Artificial Superintelligence Bill, which calls for a national ban on superintelligent AI developmen…
First Secretary Louise Haigh warned at the TUC congress in Brighton that artificial intelligence poses "huge risks" to national security and society unless proper guardrails are put in place, saying t…
UK ministers pledged to 'heed' warnings about AI risks as de facto deputy prime minister Louise Haigh told the TUC conference in Brighton that more international cooperation is needed to guarantee AI …
The UK government under Prime Minister Andy Burnham has rejected parliamentary proposals for a statutory AI kill switch and a ban on superintelligent AI, opting instead for voluntary pre-release testi…
OpenAI's head of policy in EMEA, Tom Duff Gordon, called on the U.K. government to introduce binding, mandatory, capability-based safety rules for frontier AI developers, saying the country "should ac…
More than 70 MPs and peers have urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back restrictions on artificial superintelligence development after Anthropic senior employee Evan Hubinger said he personally beli…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to back the Artificial Superintelligence Bill, tabled in the Commons on September 8 by Labour MP Alex Sobel, which woul…
The UK Cabinet Office rejected a proposed "kill switch" emergency power to shut down rogue AI models on Friday, stating that "Britain cannot simply turn AI off." The rejection followed a September ame…
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's July reshuffle of Whitehall responsibilities scattered science, technology, and digital government across multiple departments and eliminated the dedicated technology …
Nearly two months after Andy Burnham abolished the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), UK ministers Louise Haigh, Jonathan Reynolds and Lisa Nandy admitted in a letter that a "sm…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged that artificial intelligence poses risks to national security, responding to warnings from Anthropic safety researcher Evan Hubinger, who said he believes ther…
Prime Minister Andy Burnham acknowledged that artificial intelligence poses risks to national security, responding to a report that US firm Anthropic withheld its latest model from the UK's AI Safety …
Graduate job postings on Reed.co.uk have plummeted from around 180,000 four years ago to 50,000 today, with youth unemployment now a national crisis, according to Reed CEO James Reed. Official figures…
The United Kingdom risks falling behind in the global artificial intelligence race because its mobile networks cannot handle the coming surge in AI traffic, senior telecom executives warned this week.…
Green party leader Zack Polanski has called on the UK government to impose a temporary ban on new data centres, citing their high energy and water consumption amid a national drought. Polanski critici…
More than 80 actors, including Nicola Coughlan, Matt Lucas, and Hugh Bonneville, have backed the 'Save Our Voices Now' campaign urging U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham to introduce legislation giving …