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1689158

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date	16/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether she has set a deadline by which her Department must take steps once a risk is added to the AI risk register.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	14095
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/02/2024 answer text <p>The appropriate mitigation plan for any risk depends on the nature of the risk itself.</p><p>DSIT’s Central AI Risk Function owns the AI Risk Register and is responsible for the processes by which we identify, assess and prepare for AI risks.</p><p>Mitigating these risks is a cross-Government effort and in many cases DSIT is not the lead Department or Risk Owner. We work extremely closely with other government departments, agencies and regulators to ensure we are preparing for these risks in a timely manner.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 21/02/2024 14:55:19 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1688633

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's response to the AI regulation White Paper entitled A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response, published on 6 February 2024, if he will publish the list of risks on the Department's AI risk register.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	13769
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>To track identified risks, we have established an initial AI Risk Register which is owned by the Central AI Risk Function. The AI risk register lists individual risks associated with AI and outlines their likelihood and impact.</p><p> </p><p>In the White Paper we committed to engaging and publishing the risk register. From Spring 2024 we will begin a call for evidence on the risks recorded on the AI risk register.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 19/02/2024 12:11:07 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1688636

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's response to the AI regulation White Paper entitled A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response, published on 6 February 2024, how many civil servants in (a) her Department and (b) across Government are working on the risk register of AI risks.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	13771
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>We currently have 10 officials working on AI risks in the central AI risk function, which owns the AI Risk Register. This is part of the wider AI Policy Directorate and AI Safety Institute of roughly 200 officials that includes teams covering AI regulation, strategy and risk, UK capability and international engagement. In addition, there are wider risk owning teams in at least 15 other Government Departments, who work on AI risks in their remits. We do not hold resourcing numbers for other Governments Departments.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 19/02/2024 12:18:15 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1688638

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to her Department's response to the AI regulation White Paper entitled A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation: government response, published on 6 February 2024, what her Department's criteria is for identifying a risk and recording it on the AI risk register.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	13772
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The central AI risk function will maintain a holistic view of risks across the AI ecosystem. It will look at risk factors that cut across many risks, such as model capabilities, adoption, release practices, use cases, actors, and other vulnerabilities as well as the extent to which existing mitigations or resilience reduce the risk, and where gaps remain.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 19/02/2024 12:20:37 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1688639

registered interest
date	08/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence: Risk Assessment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to mitigate risks which have been recorded in the her Department's AI risk register.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	13773
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The AI Risk Register is owned and managed by the Central AI Risk Function (CAIRF). CAIRF has been established as part of our central functions which support coordination of the AI governance landscape. CAIRF conducts central risk assessment, monitors identified risks included on the register, and identifies relevant risk owners across government. DSIT will be responsible for cross-cutting mitigations to AI risks.</p><p> </p><p>We are working with departments and regulators on how they best respond to AI risks within their remits. Many regulators are already taking action in line with our principles-based approach, such as the CMA’s review into foundation models.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 19/02/2024 12:22:14 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1687733

registered interest
date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence and ICT: Postgraduate Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 24 January 2024 to Question 10644 on Artificial Intelligence and ICT: Postgraduate Education, how much industry co-funding (a) for scholarship funding and (b) excluding in-kind support has been secured by her Department since November 2023.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	13326
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>In November 2023 DSIT, through the Office for Students, published the latest data on industry funding for the AI conversion course and scholarship scheme as part of ongoing monitoring and <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.officeforstudents.org.uk%2Fpublications%2Fevaluation-of-artificial-intelligence-and-data-science-scholarship-funding%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjack.watson%40dsit.gov.uk%7Cd21637623d5542e0adf608dc28032598%7Ccbac700502c143ebb497e6492d1b2dd8%7C0%7C0%7C638429242165105187%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=36GEyT2CIPgJiQ2CuYFZxbRsSROCnsYrYxfMpgRL%2FSg%3D&amp;reserved=0" target="_blank">evaluation</a>. The next interim evaluation report is due to be published in June 2024 and will contain the latest breakdown of in-kind and scholarship funding commitments secured from industry, including the period since November 2023.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 19/02/2024 11:49:53 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda

1671827

registered interest
date	21/11/2023
answering body	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept id	216
answering dept short name	Science, Innovation and Technology
answering dept sort name	Science, Innovation and Technology
hansard heading	Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, with reference to Qq715-720 of the oral evidence given to the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee by her Department's Director General, Digital Technologies and Telecoms, on 8 November 2023, on what evidential basis her Department concluded that (a) the Information Commissioner's Office and (b) other regulators have sufficient powers to counter the risks associated with artificial intelligence.
tabling member constituency	Reading East
tabling member printed	Matt Rodda
uin	2997
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/11/2023 answer text <p>The Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) existing powers enable them to address a wide range of current and emerging risks relating to AI within their remit. The ICO has assessed how data protection applies in an AI context. They have identified it as a priority area, due to its potential to pose a high risk to individuals and their rights and freedoms. The ICO has already produced guidance and practical resources, including guidance on ‘AI and Data Protection’, clarifying requirements for fairness in AI.</p><p> </p><p>More broadly, many UK regulators are already taking action to regulate AI in their existing remits, including developing new regulatory tools in the context of AI. For example, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has published a roadmap for software and AI as a medical device and the Competition and Markets Authority recently published a report on their initial review of AI foundation models. Alongside this, we have begun work to establish a new central function to support regulators to deliver the AI regulatory framework, enabling knowledge exchange and support regulator coordination. We are engaging closely with regulators across the UK and their sponsoring government departments to understand their readiness to regulate AI effectively. This will inform our work to develop policy options with a view to addressing gaps that emerge, which could include future consideration of extending a regulator’s remit or adding additional powers.</p> answering member constituency Meriden answering member printed Saqib Bhatti question first answered 29/11/2023 14:47:59 answering member 4818 label Biography information for Saqib Bhatti
tabling member	4654 label Biography information for Matt Rodda