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United Kingdom

Last updated 27 June 2026

2 governance documents recorded for United Kingdom. National AI strategy status: published. Sections appear only where the archive holds material.

  • 2
    Documents
  • 0
    Legislation
  • 2
    Issuing bodies
  • 2023
    Earliest record

AI governance status

United Kingdom has a recorded national AI strategy: United Kingdom — A Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (Published, 29 March 2023). No binding legislation or regulation is on record. No dedicated regulator is named in the recorded documents.

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National AI strategy

  • United KingdomPolicy / Strategy29 March 2023

    United Kingdom — A Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation

    The UK white paper set out a pro-innovation, sector-led approach to AI regulation. Rather than proposing a single central AI statute, it assigned responsibility to existing regulators to apply cross-sector principles wit…

Government initiatives

Timeline

  1. 29 March 2023A Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation
  2. 1 January 2026AI Safety Institute Post-Deployment Monitoring Framework

National AI strategy

  • United KingdomPolicy / Strategy29 March 2023

    United Kingdom — A Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation

    The UK white paper set out a pro-innovation, sector-led approach to AI regulation. Rather than proposing a single central AI statute, it assigned responsibility to existing regulators to apply cross-sector principles wit…

Frameworks and ethics

Sources