THE Tory government’s “adaptable” approach to regulating artificial intelligence (AI) is “flimsy and vague,” unions warned today after Downing Street published a new white paper on the subject. 

The document “spectacularly fails to ensure that employment law keeps pace with the AI revolution” in workplaces and elsewhere, TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said.

He also accused ministers of “passing the buck” by planning to use existing regulators in different sectors, rather than setting up a dedicated regulatory body for AI.