Baroness Harding of Winscombe on Require AI labs to publish safety evalu…

Baroness Harding of Winscombe

Conservative life peer and business executive in the UK House of Lords

I genuinely do not think that individual regulators on their own can sort that out. We have to have a proper societal debate about this, and we have the democratic tools to do it. That is not a hurried piece of emergency legislation; it is a proper commission, a Green Paper and a White Paper.

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UK Parliament, House of Lords, “AI Regulation Bill,” 4 June 2026.

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 78–82: calling for careful, trusted AI regulation through a commission is relevant to a statutory frontier-model safety-evaluation publication requirement; support is more likely than opposition. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 78–82: author favors careful, trusted AI regulation; “for” a safety-evaluation publication requirement is the most likely position. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Official Hansard transcript, House of Lords AI Regulation Bill debate, 4 June 2026, lines 76–81: Baroness Harding directly says the stored wording calling for societal debate, a commission, Green Paper, and White Paper. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 3mo ago

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Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority

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

It is asking, "What do these models currently do?" It is not asking, "What should they do?" I think we need ethicists, philosophers and social scientists to build that social, moral and then legal framework for this technology, which I would be the f...

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