Policy Brief: - GENERATIVE AI - Dr Ann Kristin Glenster & Sam Gilbert

The Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge have set up a taskforce to draft a legislative proposal for the protection of workers and the use of AI. [...] A key issue with Many of the ethical concerns regarding applying the law or ethical principles generative AI are linked to the use to generative AI is that the outcome of personal data and privacy. [...] One of the drawbacks in the privacy statute, and that the objective context of generative AI of the current of the legislation is not to preclude the data protection regime is that it is processing of personal data, but instead focussed on the right to data protection to ensure that the processing is legal. [...] The government’s approach to AI Generative AI has been front and regulation would support x½individual centre of the recent labour dispute and regulators to develop sector-specific strike by the SAG-AFRA trade unions frameworks for the adoption of the representing actors in the US. [...] While the UK’s Government has resisted This is necessary to ensure that the calls for legislation to allow for growth UK’s value-based principled framework and innovation in the sector, the lack of for the governance of generative AI is AI-specific legal regulation opens the adopted in a consistent manner across possibility that the safe and responsible the UK’s industrial sectors.