The Guardian reports the UK intends to tighten online safety rules to cover AI chatbots after concerns linked to Grok and harmful content. This matters for AI governance because it signals enforcement expectations moving from platform categories to system functions, which raises compliance duties for providers on illegal content controls and risk management.
Reuters reports India’s AI Impact Summit opened amid logistical disruption and heavy attention, highlighting the scale of public scrutiny around AI policy events. This matters for AI governance because high visibility summits can accelerate commitments and procurement signalling, but they also increase pressure for credible delivery, transparency, and follow-through on safeguards.
Regulation
GOV.UK says the UK will champion AI for growth and public services at the AI Impact Summit in India. This matters for AI governance because government positioning on adoption should be matched by concrete accountability measures for deployment, especially where public services rely on supplier controls, assurance, and auditability.
GOV.UK updates the Planning Inspectorate privacy notices, noting an update to its Artificial Intelligence section to add clarity. This matters for AI governance because privacy notices are a practical compliance interface, and clearer AI wording supports transparency, lawful basis discipline, and defensible procurement choices when AI tools are used in workflows.
Academia
arXiv hosts Gillian K Hadfield’s ‘Legal Infrastructure for Transformative AI Governance’, submitted 1 February 2026, arguing that governance needs institutional infrastructure, not only substantive rules. This matters for AI governance because it maps enforceable building blocks, such as registration regimes and regulatory market designs, that can translate principles into operational oversight.
Events
University of East London is running a webinar ‘Responsible AI in Qualitative and Quantitative Research’ on 18 March 2026 as part of its AI with Integrity programme. This matters for AI governance because research and evaluation workflows are a high risk area for integrity and provenance, and the session foregrounds human in the loop controls and documentation practices.
Crown Commercial Service lists ‘Webinar: Myth busting AI in the language services sector’ on 19 March 2026, focused on responsible adoption and governance in public sector language services. This matters for AI governance because procurement-facing sessions like this translate GDPR compliance and assurance expectations into deployable controls and supplier requirements.
Takeaway
Across safety and privacy, the direction of travel is practical accountability, meaning AI suppliers and deploying organisations are being pushed to document controls, make transparency real, and close gaps where AI sits outside older categories.
Sources: The Guardian, Reuters, GOV.UK, arXiv, University of East London, Crown Commercial Service