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UK white paper leaves AI oversight to existing regulators under five principles

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Source: GOV.UK: AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach (policy paper)Also reported by Hunton Andrews Kurth

The UK government published ‘AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach’ (CP 815) on 29 March 2023. It set five cross-sector principles, on safety and security, transparency, fairness, accountability, and the right to contest outcomes, for existing regulators to apply in their own sectors, and said legislation could follow to make regulators take the principles into account. Its consultation closed on 21 June 2023.

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Companies using AI in the UK were to answer to their usual sector regulators, each applying the same five principles, while the EU was negotiating a single AI law.

When
29 Mar 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0002
Who
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Competition and Markets Authority

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GOV.UK

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Documents the source offers: document 1 (PDF), document 2 (PDF), document 3 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toUK keeps AI with existing regulators and asks them for AI plans by 30 April

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WTA-N-2023-0002: “UK white paper leaves AI oversight to existing regulators under five principles.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Mar 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-ai-regulation-white-paper-2023-03/ (source: GOV.UK: AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach (policy paper)).

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