UK Market Regulator Launches Review of AI Tech

An AI robot titled "Alter 3: Offloaded Agency," is pictured during a photocall to promote the exhibition entitled "AI: More than Human," at the Barbican Centre in London on May 15, 2019. Ben Stansall/AFP via Getty Images

The Competition and Market Authority (CMA) will investigate what the development of artificial intelligence (AI) means for UK consumers and market competition.

Requested by the government, the review of generative AI, such as seemingly new and realistic text, images, or audio, was announced on May 4.