Labour would force AI firms to share their technology's test data

Labour plans to force artificial intelligence firms to share the results of road tests of their technology after warning that regulators and politicians had failed to rein in social media platforms. The party would replace a voluntary testing agreement between tech companies and the government with a statutory regime, under which AI businesses would be compelled to share test data with officials. Peter Kyle, the shadow technology secretary, said legislators and regulators had been "behind the curve" on social media and that Labour would ensure the same mistake was not made with AI. Calling for greater transparency from tech firms after the murder of Brianna Ghey, he said companies working on AI technology – the term for computer systems that carry out tasks normally associated with human levels of intelligence – would be required to be more open under a Labour government. "We will move from a voluntary code to a statutory code," said Kyle, speaking on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, "so that those companies engaging in that kind of research and development have to release all of the test data and tell us what they are testing for, so we can see exactly what is happening and where this technology is taking us."