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Artificial Intelligence: Fraud

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help protect consumers from (a) deepfake technology, (b) AI-generated phishing scams and (c) other fraud enabled by artificial intelligence.

answeredDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

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Answering body
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
4 Feb 2025
Target answer date
6 Feb 2025
Answer
12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help protect consumers from (a) deepfake technology, (b) AI-generated phishing scams and (c) other fraud enabled by artificial intelligence.

  2. 6 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 12 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Government takes the threats posed by generative AI extremely seriously. That is why we are taking forward our manifesto commitment to ban the creation of non-consensual sexual deepfakes in the Data (Use and Access) Bill.AI-generated content is captured b...

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