Iqbal Mohamed on Require AI labs to publish safety evalu…

Iqbal Mohamed

UK Member of Parliament for Dewsbury and Batley; former pharmaceutical regulatory professional.

Secondly, the Government must mandate independent statutory testing for AI before its release, and a yellow card scheme that would be a national register where safety incidents, near misses and harms caused by AI were reported, tracked and acted on exactly as we do for adverse drug reactions. It must not be the manufacturer marking its own homework and hoping that nobody checks; self-certification does not work and must end.

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Iqbal Mohamed, UK House of Commons debate “Societal Impact of AI: Government Policy,” 8 July 2026.

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Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models

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AI Verified Mohamed calls for independent statutory AI testing before release and rejects self-certification, directly supporting pre-deployment safety-evaluation publication. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

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