Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

It is useful to centre this in wider concerns about the health of the information space. The information space is critical to democracy. Even before we were concerned about deepfakes and AI chatbots, we were worried about how social media recommender systems were poisoning the information space. That to me is crucial. AI just amplifies those risks in the information space.

On concrete suggestions to the committee, the plurality of obligations that might be placed on providers of AI chatbots and social media feeds to make sure that does not poison the information space, or at least gets rid of some of the poison in the information space, is really important. At the moment, we are in a situation where people do not know what is true. In fact, the whole concept of truth is being undermined. If ours is a society that can at least agree that there is such a thing as truth, even if we disagree about what the truth is, that is really important. That is what is what is fundamental here.