UK’s Pact & Equity Urge Government Intervention On AI
deadline.comThe UK’s producer trade body and actors union have called on the government to rejoin the AI debate and consider legislation before it is too late.
AI is set to play a central role in the upcoming contract negotiations between Pact and Equity but John McVay, who runs the former, and Lynda Rooke, who is president of the latter, concurred on the need for government to protect the industry via legislation. “They’ve kicked the can down the road [on AI],” McVay said of the government at today’s Creative Cities Convention. “There is case law established in America about AI copyright.
On the one hand you’ve got the [UK] government saying ‘let’s wait and see’ but if you go further down the road then they will say ‘we don’t like it, it’s going to go more extreme’.
And then they will chill investment.” McVay, whose body represents hundreds of TV and film indies, said tough AI legislation could differentiate the UK from the U.S.
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