Glenlead co-authors policy recommendations to unlock the potential of generative AI

Glenlead Executive Director, Dr Ann Kristin Glenster, and Sam Gilbert of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy recommend that the UK should incentivise businesses to use existing AI tools, and that these should be regulated to ensure safety, responsibility, and public confidence.

18 October 2023

The policy brief was published by the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, both at the University of Cambridge, in the lead-up to the UK’s AI Safety Summit, which will be held in November 2023. 

Instead of attempting to make the UK a global leader in the development of foundations models, national policy should instead focus on how to empower UK businesses to use existing generative AI tools. 

The recommendations in the policy brief asks the Government to build national capabilities by incentivising business to take up generative AI tools, to educate businesses and the workforce, and to devise and implement a binding regulatory framework that will give the public the confidence that generative AI is responsible, ethical, accountable, and
trustworthy.

The UK has great potential to harness the power of generative AI to boost the economy. A national strategy to
build capabilities to strengthen productivity, coupled with a robust and ethical regulatory framework, can steer the
UK onto the path to become a global leader in AI. The report has garnered considerable attention from legislators and was discussed in The Times. 

Read the report here.