Britain is all set to become the first country in the world to introduce laws against the use of artificial intelligence tools for producing child sexual abuse images.
According to BBC, the UK government introduced four new laws to crack down on AI-generated child sexual abuse images after warnings from law enforcement agencies regarding the alarming proliferation in the negative use of the technology.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced that the UK will be the world’s first country to take legal action against creating and distributing AI tools designed to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with up to five years imprisonment punishment.
Cooper said, “We know that sick predators’ activities online often lead to them carrying out the most horrific abuse in person. This government will not hesitate to act to ensure the safety of children online by ensuring our laws keep pace with the latest threats.”
Moreover, in the new measures, the UK government will introduce the Crime and Policing Bill. Under the bill, people who are found to own AI “paedophile manuals” could be jailed for up to three years.
The other laws make it a crime to have websites where paedophiles can share child sexual abuse content or give advice. Offenders could face up to 10 years in prison. It is also unlawful to create AI-generated CSAM involving images that are either partly or completely computer-generated.
The home secretary asserted that these four new laws are bold measures designed to keep children safe online as technologies evolve. She believes that the laws will help to tackle child sexual abuse online as well as offline.
