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answer text: The AI White Paper emphasised the importance of ensuring that UK regulators and public bodies have the capacity, expertise, and capabilities to implement government’s pro-innovation approach whilst recognising and understanding the risks. This is particularly true for those regulators for which AI falls squarely within their regulatory remit, but also applies to a much wider range of public and regulatory bodies considering the implications AI has across the economy. The Department for Work and Pensions sponsors three regulators: The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and The Pensions Regulator. It is not possible to accurately confirm the numbers of staff who partly work on the implications of AI within their remit. This presents a challenge disaggregating ‘AI resource’ to provide figures on the proportion of budget spent. However, the department can confirm the following: ONR is developing a framework for regulation of artificial intelligence (AI). Following two successful expert panels on AI in collaboration with industry and academia, ONR was awarded a £170,950 grant from the governments Regulators’ Pioneer Fund (RPF) to pilot a first of a kind regulatory sandbox process for AI in the nuclear sector, in partnership with the Environment Agency. In line with their commitment to embrace innovation ONR continues to grow capability for the regulation of novel technologies, including AI. HSE does not allocate a specific budget for work in relation to AI, this is a cross-cutting topic which concerns many divisions within HSE. No HSE staff work wholly on AI and approximately ten staff have materially contributed to work on AI over the last 12 months. This is technology that is developing at pace, as an agile regulator HSE will reallocate resource to address new risks as necessary. TPR does not allocate a specific budget for work in relation to AI and no staff work wholly on AI. This is technology that is developing at pace, as an …
answer given date: 2023-06-15+01:00
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