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<p>HM Government has a comprehensive set of artificial intelligence policies, including
our recent National AI Strategy. This strategy will ensure that the UK’s AI ecosystem
continues to flourish, so that the UK has the continued domestic capability to be
a world leader in AI across all sectors.</p><p>In the development of our own approach
to sectors and technologies, we keep abreast of other international plans and strategies
for artificial intelligence, and their implications for the UK. We are committed to
getting the national and international governance of AI technologies right in order
to encourage innovation and investment, and to protect the public and our fundamental
values. Given the UK’s strength in AI research, innovation, and governance, we are
in a position to make a unique and important contribution to the development of global
standards for AI, and to lead thinking in this arena.</p><p>We are familiar with China’s
Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, issued in 2017, but recognise that it does
not in isolation represent the entirety of China’s AI strategy. We note that China
last year imposed its own export restrictions on its domestically generated AI technology.
On 8 December 2021 the Secretary of State for International Trade informed Parliament
in a written statement about a package of measures to update the export control regime.
The recent review concluded that there were anomalies and inconsistencies within the
UK's export control regime, and, as a result, China has been added to the list of
those destinations subject to military end-use controls. The updated licensing criteria
for strategic export controls apply to all goods, software, and technology which are
subject to control for strategic reasons.</p>
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