Open Loop’s new 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 launched 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.
Program Details
This six-month program gives participating companies the opportunity to learn about the CMA’s AI Principles and their role in fostering a robust and diverse AI ecosystem and ensuring that consumers, businesses and society can reap the full benefits of AI foundation model development and deployment. The program will also gather insights from companies on their current generative AI uses, opportunities, and barriers to use, and provide valuable feedback to the CMA which can inform future iterations of the CMA’s AI Principles and further CMA work on this topic.
Leveraging the policy prototyping methodology developed by Meta’s Open Loop, the program incorporates both qualitative and quantitative testing methodology. All findings and recommendations from this policy prototyping program will be published in a final report in early 2025.
The Open Loop UK program aims to:
Leverage collaborative policy prototyping methodologies to analyse the CMA AI Principles and provide targeted recommendations from UK businesses to inform future iterations and practical implementation.
Develop insights around the current use and deployment of AI foundation models and how AI value can be best realized across intersecting policies.
Facilitate exchanges of ideas, solutions and best practices among AI companies, experts, and policymakers to drive the responsible, safe and beneficial use of AI foundation models.
Meta’s Open Loop program has partnered with Accenture on this Open Loop UK program.
Open Loop thrives on collaboration. For this Open Loop UK program, we will work together with participants from UK businesses, as well as a group of experts, made up of academia, civil society and industry representatives. The diversity of perspectives and expertise within this consortium enriches the program, ensuring that the policies crafted are not only effective but also reflective of the evolving landscape of technology.
Please stay tuned to learn more about our Open Loop UK program consortium.
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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