Lords Communications Committee to take evidence from AI Minister and Government Chief Scientific Advisor on Large Language Models
Friday 24 November 2023
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will next week take evidence from Professor Dame Angela McLean, the Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor and Viscount Camrose, Minister for AI and Intellectual Property in the last evidence sessions of its inquiry into Large Language Models.
The evidence sessions will focus on the Government’s approach to AI regulation.
The evidence sessions will start at 2:30pm on Tuesday 28 November in Committee Room 2 of the House of Lords. Giving evidence will be:
2:30pm
Professor Dame Angela McLean, Chief Scientific Advisor, Government Office for Science
3:30pm
Viscount Camrose, Minister for AI and Intellectual Property, Department for Science Innovation and Technology
In the session with Professor Angela McLean questions will focus on the Government’s understanding of the risks posed by LLMs and what mechanisms it has for early warning of catastrophic risk; the opportunities around language models; and whether the Government has the balance of expertise it needs to respond to frontier AI developments following significant changes to its advisory bodies.
With Viscount Camrose the Committee will ask the Minister about the work of the AI Safety Institute and how it will prioritise its spending; how the UK can capitalise on opportunities, including an in-house Government model (so-called BritGPT); whether current safety testing pledges by AI developers are adequate or if further legal requirements are needed; and what plans the Government has to
