Hello, welcome back to Emlex's weekly podcast. It's great to have your company. I'm your host,

James Panicki, walking you through some of the bigger stories in regulatory affairs with the

assistance of our

team of reporters around the world. Now, is it just me or has artificial intelligence

been making news of late? A few weeks ago it was the chat GPT program that people were talking

about. Would it be doing us all out of a job? Could students ask it to do their homework

for them? Obviously

some very big questions there. But then there was some more recent AI-generated photos of

the Pope in a coat, the whole Belanziaga Pope internet sensation, or the fake photos of former

US President Donald Trump on the perp walk. So AI is what we're talking about. It's all around us.

And if it's with us now, that means that regulators are playing catch-up, some more than others.

A few weeks ago, we discussed this in the context of jurisdictions in the US. Today, we're

taking a look at the European Union and the UK to see how things are going there. And the reality is that

those two jurisdictions are at very different stages, with the EU far more advanced in its plans

for AI regulation and the UK publishing a policy paper only this week. But we're also starting to

see some differences in emphasis that reflect two different visions.

So let's bring in some expertise from either side of the channel. Nicholas Wallace

covers data privacy and security for M-lex from Brussels, while Sam Clark is an

M-lex correspondent who covers data privacy and security in the UK and Ireland, and he does it from London, and they're both

with us right now. Sam, let's start with you. What is the UK's approach to regulation of

artificial intelligence? So it's based on five principles. Those principles are safety, security

and robustness, transparency and

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