Lawmakers call on UK tech minister to introduce AI legislation
By Frank Hersey ( February 4, 2026, 16:40 GMT | Insight) -- A cross-party group of lawmakers have written to technology minister Liz Kendall calling on her to introduce AI legislation to prevent another situation similar to Grok producing sexualized images on the X platform, the tech ministry told MLex. The lawmakers say the online safety regulator's admission Tuesday that UK law does not cover some harmful uses of AI chatbots shows clear gaps in legislation.A senior figure in the governing Labour Party, lawmaker Anneliese Dodds, has led a cross-party group of 48 lawmakers in writing a letter to the technology minister to regulate AI to avoid a repeat of the Grok situation where users of X prompted the AI chatbot account to create nonconsensual intimate images....
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