United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 99593
Artificial Intelligence
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12 December 2025
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22 December 2025 · Answer
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Artificial intelligence
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22 December 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on its classification system for AI chatbots; and whether her Department plans to review the classification of chatbot services as search service
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12 December 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what discussions she has had with Ofcom on its classification system for AI chatbots; and whether her Department plans to review the classification of chatbot services as search service
Source: Commons
22 December 2025
Answer
Last year, Ofcom published a letter that set out that if an AI service searches the live internet to return its results it will be regulated under the Act as a search service.The Secretary of State has confirmed in Parliament that the government will furt...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-12-12/99593
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1863696
- uk · wq-1863696 · source updated 22 December 2025