Comment by Peter Kyle

UK shadow technology secretary, Labour
We will move from a voluntary code to a statutory code, so that those companies engaging in that kind of research and development have to release all the test data and tell us what they are testing for so we can see exactly what is happening and where this technology is taking us. [...] We would compel by law, those test data results to be released to government so that the AI safety institute, set up by Rishi Sunak can scrutinise, can look at exactly what the implications are and just reassure the public that independently, we are scrutinising what is happening in some of the real cutting-edge parts of the technology development, when it comes to artificial intelligence.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic and the stored fields appear correct. In the BBC transcript PDF titled "PETER KYLE MP — SUNDAY WITH LAURA KUENSSBERG, 4TH FEBRUARY 2024," the first sentence appears at lines 109–113 and the second at lines 121–126, attributed to "PK" (Peter Kyle); the omitted section marked with [...] is the interviewer’s follow-up between those two passages. The source URL provided does contain this text. ([downloads.bbc.co.uk](https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/swlk/KYLE04FEB.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Disputed: the Guardian URL contains the first sentence as an attributed quote from Peter Kyle, but your second sentence is not fully a verbatim Kyle quote there—the words before "reassure the public" are the reporter’s narration, not quoted speech. A BBC transcript of Kyle’s 4 February 2024 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg interview also shows different original wording in places (for example, "all the test data" rather than "all of the test data"). So the combined passage is not fully verbatim as written. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/04/labour-force-ai-firms-share-technology-test-data)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified: This is from Peter Kyle, then UK Shadow Technology Secretary (Labour), speaking to The Guardian in February 2024. The Guardian URL was blocked by WebFetch, but multiple sources (Silicon UK, Cryptopolitan, etc.) confirm the exact wording "voluntary code to a statutory code" and the reference to the AI Safety Institute. Year 2024 is correct. The vote "for" on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems" aligns well - Kyle is calling for mandatory disclosure of test data to the UK AI Safety Institute, which is a form of mandated third-party audit/scrutiny. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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