Legislate AI regulation NOW
The Issue
A) If you care about young people, there should be a clampdown on AI.
Unregulated social media created an environment for cyberbullying to rise massively and cost young lives [1].
It is being used, not just to create child pornography, but to deepfake your children into it [2a][2b].
The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has introduced law against owning software that creates these images, but not developing it. A failure to cut the head off the snake, as it were.
It is creating an antithetic model to education (see also part B: Dis- Misinformation) [3]. When anyone can create an unchecked article or essay, it's not just cheating it's a denial of knowledge. The person behind the keyboard doesn't have to find things out. Or cite their sources which I am doing rigorously.
The only actor that has learnt anything potentially factual is an algorithm. And those facts are what people are searching for, not what is true.
Even writing this through Change.org I was offered AI assistance rather than guidance towards experts or peer-reviewed articles.
B) If you care about the truth, there should be a clampdown on AI.
While deepfakes have yet to interrupt elections, falsehoods have appeared in American courts and journalism. As we've seen with social media, it is only a matter of time [4].
OpenAI and Grok are surprisingly self-aware that they only repeat what they're told and often create misinformation and you, as government, shrug your shoulders.
C) If you care about the environment, there should be a clampdown on AI.
It's a largely unnecessary technology that is devouring fossil fuel-powered electricity at speed [5]. While wasting water and creating smog. A word I've not heard since the 1990s.
D) If you care about authenticity, there should be a clampdown on AI.
Copyright and intellectual property (IP) infringement and theft has been rife. This government has shown no love for the artists and creators in this regard.
Across the board, rigorous legislation and communication, as was given to GDPR with regards to personal data, could solve this.
Permission-based AI, such as sharing medical research, scans and diagnoses should be encouraged. Data-scraping, deepfakes and disinformation are not nuanced, and should be stopped in their tracks. Regardless of the billionaires behind them.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22000161
[2a] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr78pd7p42ro
[3] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-ai-cheating-cases-soar-uk-universities
[4] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-ai-cheating-cases-soar-uk-universities
[5] https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
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The Issue
A) If you care about young people, there should be a clampdown on AI.
Unregulated social media created an environment for cyberbullying to rise massively and cost young lives [1].
It is being used, not just to create child pornography, but to deepfake your children into it [2a][2b].
The Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has introduced law against owning software that creates these images, but not developing it. A failure to cut the head off the snake, as it were.
It is creating an antithetic model to education (see also part B: Dis- Misinformation) [3]. When anyone can create an unchecked article or essay, it's not just cheating it's a denial of knowledge. The person behind the keyboard doesn't have to find things out. Or cite their sources which I am doing rigorously.
The only actor that has learnt anything potentially factual is an algorithm. And those facts are what people are searching for, not what is true.
Even writing this through Change.org I was offered AI assistance rather than guidance towards experts or peer-reviewed articles.
B) If you care about the truth, there should be a clampdown on AI.
While deepfakes have yet to interrupt elections, falsehoods have appeared in American courts and journalism. As we've seen with social media, it is only a matter of time [4].
OpenAI and Grok are surprisingly self-aware that they only repeat what they're told and often create misinformation and you, as government, shrug your shoulders.
C) If you care about the environment, there should be a clampdown on AI.
It's a largely unnecessary technology that is devouring fossil fuel-powered electricity at speed [5]. While wasting water and creating smog. A word I've not heard since the 1990s.
D) If you care about authenticity, there should be a clampdown on AI.
Copyright and intellectual property (IP) infringement and theft has been rife. This government has shown no love for the artists and creators in this regard.
Across the board, rigorous legislation and communication, as was given to GDPR with regards to personal data, could solve this.
Permission-based AI, such as sharing medical research, scans and diagnoses should be encouraged. Data-scraping, deepfakes and disinformation are not nuanced, and should be stopped in their tracks. Regardless of the billionaires behind them.
[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22000161
[2a] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr78pd7p42ro
[3] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-ai-cheating-cases-soar-uk-universities
[4] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student-ai-cheating-cases-soar-uk-universities
[5] https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
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Petition created on 26 May 2025