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UK keeps AI with existing regulators and asks them for AI plans by 30 April

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Source: GOV.UK: UK signals step change for regulators to strengthen AI leadership

On 6 February 2024 the UK government published its response to the consultation on its March 2023 AI regulation white paper. It kept the sector-based approach run by existing regulators, gave them £10m to build AI skills and tools, and asked regulators including Ofcom and the Competition and Markets Authority to publish their AI approach by 30 April. It also set out early thinking on targeted binding requirements for developers of the most capable general-purpose AI systems, and announced nearly £90m for nine research hubs and a responsible AI partnership with the US.

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UK companies were told sector regulators would lead, with binding rules considered only for the most capable models, and regulators such as Ofcom and the CMA had to publish how they would apply the five principles within three months.

When
6 Feb 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0075
Who
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Ofcom, Competition and Markets Authority

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK. 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). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2024-0075: “UK keeps AI with existing regulators and asks them for AI plans by 30 April.” wheresthe.ai, 6 Feb 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-ai-white-paper-response-2024-02/ (source: GOV.UK: UK signals step change for regulators to strengthen AI leadership).

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