UK keeps AI safeguards in the maybe pile for Cyber Security BIll

UK officials have not committed to adding AI safeguards to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill.

UK officials told MPs they are still considering whether the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill should include measures on AI, cyber, and loss-of-control risks, despite AI minister Kanishka Narayan saying the government will legislate wherever necessary. Alexandra Jones said recent machinery-of-government changes left the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport responsible for the bill. The article contrasts the UK’s sector-specific approach with the EU AI Act and notes the lack of US federal AI legislation. It also cites Anthropic research forecasting, but not demonstrating, self-replicating AI worms, plus warnings from Booz Allen Hamilton and the AI Futures Project.