UK delays plans to regulate AI as ministers seek to align with Trump administration

Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump's administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned. A long-awaited AI bill, which ministers had originally intended to publish before Christmas, is not expected to appear in parliament before the summer, according to three Labour sources briefed on the plans. Ministers had intended to publish a short bill within months of entering office that would have required companies to hand over large AI models such as ChatGPT for testing by the UK's AI Security Institute. Trump's election has led to a rethink, however. A senior Labour source said the bill was "properly in the background" and that there were still "no hard proposals in terms of what the legislation looks like".