Comment by Baroness Teather

Faith leaders, reading the signs of the times, are playing a vital role here: urging us all to consider the wider philosophical, ethical and moral questions around this advancing technology, and how we want to shape it to support human flourishing, not just how we might fix technocratic problems that we can pick off one at a time and compartmentalise. The scale of AI’s potential impact, on all areas of life for good and ill, requires this breadth of thinking. My first question to the Minister is: where is this cross-cutting, ethical thinking taking place in government? Who is holding the bigger questions about the potential impact of AI on the shape of society? How might the public engage in this wider conversation?