No hard proposals' UK bill was delayed by Trump re-election

Ministers have delayed plans to regulate artificial intelligence as the UK government seeks to align itself with Donald Trump's administration on the technology, the Guardian has learned.

- Eleni Courea

A long-awaited AI bill, which ministers originally intended to publish before Christmas, is not expected to appear in parliament before the summer, according to three Labour sources briefed on the plans.

Ministers had intended to publish a short bill within months of entering office that would have required companies to hand over large AI models such as ChatGPT for testing by the UK's AI Security Institute.

The bill was intended to be the government's answer to concerns that AI models could become so advanced that they pose a risk to humanity, and were different from separate proposals to clarify how AI companies can use copyrighted material.