UK Legal and Regulatory Context

Aim

Provide UK-specific grounding in the laws, regulators and expectations that govern AI use.

Topics

• UK GDPR and data rights
• ICO expectations for AI
• DSIT AI governance principles
• The AI Safety Institute and UK safety-testing direction
• Public-sector procurement and assurance expectations
• Differences between the UK, EU and US approaches (high level)

Activities

• Case study: a UK public-sector AI failure
• Rights-based scenario: “What can a citizen request?”