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Artificial Intelligence: Child Sexual Abuse Material

Commons · Question 66916 · Tabled 11 Jul 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 21 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Sarah Champion

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that AI technologies which fall outside the scope of the Online Safety Act are subject to appropriate regulatory oversight of their potenti

Answer

Answered by Feryal Clark, 21 Jul 2025

We are committed to ensuring our laws keep pace with technology and are building on the Online Safety Act by taking further action in the Crime and Policing Bill to criminalise AI models which have been optimised to create child sexual abuse material.As s...