Open Loop’s policy prototyping program in the United Kingdom
AI has the potential to increase human productivity, creativity, and quality of life - and to accelerate economic growth while unlocking societal benefits. Competition in AI development helps more people around the world to have access to these benefits and opportunities. It ensures that power isn't concentrated in the hands of a small number of companies, and that generative AI foundation models can be deployed more evenly and safely across society.
Meta’s Open Loop program is excited to have run its first policy prototyping program in the United Kingdom, which is focused on testing the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) AI Principles to ensure that they are clear, implementable and effective at guiding the ongoing development and use of AI Foundation Models, while protecting competition and consumers.
Competition in AI Foundation Models
This program, launched in September 2024, focused on understanding the current AI foundation model market and drivers or barriers to competition, as well as on the effective development and awareness of the CMA AI principles. The report presents our insights from UK businesses and experts on these topics, with particular focus on the role the CMA AI principles could play in underpinning the work of the CMA, the UK Government and allies, regulators and UK businesses as they seek to spur growth and innovation in the UK’s AI marketplace and broader ecosystem.
The Open Loop UK program:
Leveraged collaborative policy prototyping methodologies to analyse the CMA AI Principles and provided targeted recommendations from UK organisations to inform future iterations and practical implementation.
Developed insights around the current foundation model market, competition challenges, and how AI value can be best realized across intersecting policies.
Facilitated a forum for the discussion of opportunities and challenges to fair competition and exchange of best practices among organisations.
Open Loop thrives on collaboration, and for this Open Loop UK program, we partnered with Accenture and worked together with participants from 14 significant UK businesses, as well as a group of experts, who were drawn from academia, civil society and industry representatives. The diversity of perspectives and expertise within this consortium enriched the program, ensuring that the policies crafted are not only effective but also reflective of the evolving landscape of technology.
Please do get in touch if you would like to learn more about this program or the Open Loop approach to evidence-based policy development.
Participating Organizations
Meta’s Open Loop is a global program that connects policymakers and technology companies to help develop effective and evidence-based policies around AI and other emerging technologies.
Through experimental governance methods, Meta’s Open Loop members co-create policy prototypes and test new or existing approaches to policy, guidance frameworks, regulations, and laws. These multi-stakeholder efforts improve the quality of rulemaking processes by ensuring that new guidance and regulation aimed at emerging technology are effective and implementable.
Open Loop has been running theme-specific programs to operationalize trustworthy AI across multiple verticals, such as Transparency and Explainability in Singapore and Mexico, and Human Centered-AI with an emphasis on stakeholder engagement in India. Beyond AI, we are also testing a playbook to promote the adoption of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in Brazil and Uruguay.
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