Committee calls for bill to address AI threat to human rights

A cross-party group of MPs and peers has identified human rights risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI) which existing laws are said to be ill-equipped to cover. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) has published a report calling for a new bill on AI to address the scale and seriousness of such threats. The JCHR argues that the current legislative and regulatory approach to AI is fragmented and difficult to navigate, leaving gaps in protection.

The report highlights several human rights concerns, including AI's potential to display biases against particular groups, create and spread misinformation, and be used for invasive scanning and creation of sexualized images. The JCHR advocates for the creation of a single, independent AI oversight body with a statutory basis, and proposes a regulatory regime that classifies different risk levels and mandates more demanding obligations for higher risk AI systems.

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