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House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence
The UK parliamentary committee, on which Giddens served, that produced the 2018 report AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able? — an early institutional attempt to anticipate the governance challenges of AI, whose recommendations have been largely overtaken by the pace of subsequent development.
The House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence was established in June 2017 and reported in April 2018, after nine months of work that included interviews with sixty expert witnesses and evidence from some 280 contributors. Baron Giddens served as a member, bringing his decades of sociological work on risk, trust, and institutional reflexivity to bear on a technology whose most consequential developments were still seven years in the future. The committee's report, AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able?, remains among the most thoughtful early institutional responses to the AI governance challenge, and its subsequent obsolescence illustrates rather than refutes the structural analysis Giddens himself had been developing for decades.
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The committee was chaired by Lord Clement-Jones and included members with backgrounds in science, policy, law, and