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1434301

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date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release, New UK initiative to shape global standards for Artificial Intelligence, published on 12 January 2022, what ethical considerations her Department plans to include in the new artificial intelligence standards.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	127390
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The AI Standards Hub pilot aims to grow UK contributions to global AI standards development. As outlined in the National AI Strategy, the UK is taking a global approach to shaping technical standards for AI trustworthiness, seeking to embed accuracy, reliability, security, and other facets of trust in AI technologies from the outset.</p><p>The pilot follows the launch of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s (CDEI) ‘roadmap to an effective AI assurance ecosystem’, which is also part of the National AI Strategy. The roadmap sets out the steps needed to develop world-leading products and services to verify AI systems and accelerate AI adoption. Technical standards are important for enabling effective AI assurance because they give organisations a common basis for verifying AI.</p><p>Alongside the AI Standards hub pilot and AI assurance roadmap, the government, via the National AI Strategy, has committed to undertake a review of the UK’s AI governance landscape, and publish an AI governance white paper. AI Standards, assurance, and regulation can be mutually complementary drivers of ethical and responsible AI.</p><p>The Alan Turing Institute is leading the AI Standards Hub Pilot, supported by the British Standards Institution and National Physical Laboratory. The pilot is expected to complete its initial activities by the end of 2022.</p><p>The AI Standards Hub pilot will involve engagement and collaboration with industry and academics. This includes a series of stakeholder roundtables being led by The Alan Turing Institute.</p><p>Once the Hub pilot finishes, there will be a process to evaluate and review its impact and determine the appropriate next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 127392 127393 question first answered 01/03/2022 12:04:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1434303

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release, New UK initiative to shape global standards for Artificial Intelligence, published on 12 January 2022, what discussions officials in her Department had with industry leaders and academics when designing the artificial intelligence standards hub.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	127392
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The AI Standards Hub pilot aims to grow UK contributions to global AI standards development. As outlined in the National AI Strategy, the UK is taking a global approach to shaping technical standards for AI trustworthiness, seeking to embed accuracy, reliability, security, and other facets of trust in AI technologies from the outset.</p><p>The pilot follows the launch of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s (CDEI) ‘roadmap to an effective AI assurance ecosystem’, which is also part of the National AI Strategy. The roadmap sets out the steps needed to develop world-leading products and services to verify AI systems and accelerate AI adoption. Technical standards are important for enabling effective AI assurance because they give organisations a common basis for verifying AI.</p><p>Alongside the AI Standards hub pilot and AI assurance roadmap, the government, via the National AI Strategy, has committed to undertake a review of the UK’s AI governance landscape, and publish an AI governance white paper. AI Standards, assurance, and regulation can be mutually complementary drivers of ethical and responsible AI.</p><p>The Alan Turing Institute is leading the AI Standards Hub Pilot, supported by the British Standards Institution and National Physical Laboratory. The pilot is expected to complete its initial activities by the end of 2022.</p><p>The AI Standards Hub pilot will involve engagement and collaboration with industry and academics. This includes a series of stakeholder roundtables being led by The Alan Turing Institute.</p><p>Once the Hub pilot finishes, there will be a process to evaluate and review its impact and determine the appropriate next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 127390 127393 question first answered 01/03/2022 12:04:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1434307

registered interest
date	22/02/2022
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, with reference to her Department's press release, New UK initiative to shape global standards for Artificial Intelligence, published on 12 January 2022, how long the pilot of the artificial intelligence standards hub will last; what metrics that hub will be measured against; and who will evaluate the performance of that pilot scheme.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	127393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/03/2022 answer text <p>The AI Standards Hub pilot aims to grow UK contributions to global AI standards development. As outlined in the National AI Strategy, the UK is taking a global approach to shaping technical standards for AI trustworthiness, seeking to embed accuracy, reliability, security, and other facets of trust in AI technologies from the outset.</p><p>The pilot follows the launch of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation’s (CDEI) ‘roadmap to an effective AI assurance ecosystem’, which is also part of the National AI Strategy. The roadmap sets out the steps needed to develop world-leading products and services to verify AI systems and accelerate AI adoption. Technical standards are important for enabling effective AI assurance because they give organisations a common basis for verifying AI.</p><p>Alongside the AI Standards hub pilot and AI assurance roadmap, the government, via the National AI Strategy, has committed to undertake a review of the UK’s AI governance landscape, and publish an AI governance white paper. AI Standards, assurance, and regulation can be mutually complementary drivers of ethical and responsible AI.</p><p>The Alan Turing Institute is leading the AI Standards Hub Pilot, supported by the British Standards Institution and National Physical Laboratory. The pilot is expected to complete its initial activities by the end of 2022.</p><p>The AI Standards Hub pilot will involve engagement and collaboration with industry and academics. This includes a series of stakeholder roundtables being led by The Alan Turing Institute.</p><p>Once the Hub pilot finishes, there will be a process to evaluate and review its impact and determine the appropriate next steps.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Croydon South answering member printed Chris Philp grouped question UIN 127390 127392 question first answered 01/03/2022 12:04:14 answering member 4503 label Biography information for Chris Philp
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

862052

registered interest
date	14/03/2018
answering body	Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept id	10
answering dept short name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
answering dept sort name	Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how the Government Office for Artificial Intelligence plans to improve diversity in the artificial intelligence workforce.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	132471
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>We will work with industry, with research and teaching institutions, and with organisations with relevant expertise, to identify what measures (in the UK and in other countries) are most effective in increasing diversity in this workforce, and we will work with partners to promote best practice.</p><p> </p><p>We already work with industry to address gender diversity by supporting the Tech Talent Charter, a private sector initiative designed to promote diversity in the tech workforce. Signatories pledge to implement recruitment and retention practices that will address gender imbalances. Over 180 companies, including international tech companies, SMEs, startups and charities have already signed the Charter.</p> answering member constituency Stourbridge answering member printed Margot James question first answered 19/03/2018 11:32:25 answering member 4115 label Biography information for Margot James
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah