Baroness Kidron on AI value alignment must be subject to p…

Baroness Kidron

UK House of Lords crossbench peer and digital rights advocate

Advanced AI does not become unsafe in a vacuum; it becomes unsafe by design when it is developed without accountability, driven by profit incentives of private actors and embedded in infrastructure that the state can neither inspect nor exit.

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AI Systems: Risks - Hansard - UK Parliament

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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AI Verified The quote says advanced AI becomes unsafe by design when developed without accountability and should be governed by a framework beyond developers, which is directly on point. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says AI unsafe by design without accountability and that developers should not decide in isolation; that supports the recorded 'for' answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Hansard 8 Jan 2026, Baroness Kidron: the quoted wording appears verbatim and matches the speaker attribution on the page. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

In systems that shape our defence, policing, health service and democratic decision-making, sovereignty must be the default, with onshore audit and assurance, procurement that builds domestic capability, control over strategic pinch-points and the ul...

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