{"id":264850,"date":"2026-06-05T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/archbishop-tells-parliament-artificial-intelligence-regulations-fail-to-protect-human-dignity\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:35:27","slug":"archbishop-tells-parliament-artificial-intelligence-regulations-fail-to-protect-human-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/05\/archbishop-tells-parliament-artificial-intelligence-regulations-fail-to-protect-human-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop tells Parliament artificial intelligence regulations fail to protect human dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-ai-regulation-chatbots-abuse-b2990443.html\">Archbishop tells Parliament artificial intelligence regulations fail to protect human dignity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-ai-regulation-chatbots-abuse-b2990443.html\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-ai-regulation-chatbots-abuse-b2990443.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-05 08:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.independent.co.uk\">www.independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 data-testid=\"support-nsc-title\" class=\"sc-hez36s-2 flaoin\">Your support helps us to tell the story<\/h3>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"sc-1uza6dc-1 eRQajs\">Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong><span data-testid=\"dropdown-with-gradient-dropdown-tablet\" class=\"sc-aja53j-3 dHXFkr\"><span data-action-type=\"Read more\" class=\"sc-aja53j-2 iKklLt\">Read more<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Current regulations governing artificial intelligence are &#8220;wholly inadequate&#8221; to prevent significant harm, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned Parliament. <\/p>\n<p>Dame Sarah Mullally highlighted concerns that chatbots are facilitating roleplays of rape and child sexual abuse, a development she fears risks normalising and legitimising such abhorrent acts.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the outset of an AI debate in the House of Lords, a topic she personally selected, Dame Sarah advocated for a &#8220;pro-human framework&#8221; for AI development. <\/p>\n<p>She cited a recent report from Durham University, which presented &#8220;evidence that chatbots are now facilitating violence against women and girls: allowing roleplays of incest, child sexual abuse and rape with few safeguards, risking the normalisation and the legitimisation of such abuse.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah Mullally spoke in the House of Lords on Friday<span class=\"sc-1cbdeug-7 gjqsiM\"> (James Manning\/PA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop stressed that &#8220;These harms are not simply the result of user misuse \u2013 AI platforms design choices, policies and governance failures are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-ai-regulation-chatbots-abuse-b2990443.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archbishop tells Parliament artificial intelligence regulations fail to protect human dignity https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/archbishop-ai-regulation-chatbots-abuse-b2990443.html Publish Date: 2026-06-05&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/2026\/06\/05\/12\/2272987239..?width=1200&height=800&crop=1200:800","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264852,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264850\/revisions\/264852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}