AI: Security Minister Tom Tugendhat Says ‘Genie Won’t Go Back in the Bottle’

Aidan Meller looks at a painting by Ai-Da Robot, an ultra-realistic humanoid robot artist, during a press call at the British Library in London, on April 4, 2022. Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat has said it is too late to suspend or halt the development of artificial intelligence (AI) because of fears about how it will be used.

Italy last month said it would temporarily block the AI software ChatGPT because of unlawful data collection and problems in its age verification system.