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Artificial intelligence regulation in the United Kingdom: a path to good governance and global leadership?

Huw Roberts, University of Oxford
Alexander Babuta, British Library
Jessica Morley, University of Oxford
Christopher Thomas, British Library
Mariarosaria Taddeo, University of Oxford
Luciano Floridi, University of Bologna
PUBLISHED ON: 26 May 2023 DOI: 10.14763/2023.2.1709

Introduction Globally, there are now over 800 AI policy initiatives, from the governments of at least 60 countries, with most being introduced after 2016. The United Kingdom (UK) is at the forefront of AI governance efforts, at least quantitatively, being second only to the United States (US) in terms of the number of national-level AI policies released (OECD.AI, 2021) and ranking top for the number of mentions of AI in legislative documents between 2016 and 2021 (Zhang et al., 2022). According to the OECD, the US has released 55 documents, the UK 53, the EU 59, and China 22. These figures do not evidence the UK producing better outcomes than other countries that have published fewer …