Mr. John Sherwin:

Any complex tool that will have a serious impact on the lives of people needs to be regulated in the same way. The example we included in the opening statement was of 50% of local authorities introducing gender bias into care decisions through Google Gemma. Every other week there is news about some AI system that is clearly showing bias in terms of Nazi sympathising or some sort of racist comments and gendered issues. It is in the mainstream media very clearly. When disabled people and deaf people are brought in to do testing after a system has already been developed, it is too late. We saw this even during the Covid pandemic where it had to be done very quickly-----