—one technology that has an incredible breadth of sectoral applications. The depth and breadth of AI is immense. Trying to come up with something that factors in all of these use cases is so difficult. The reason it's so difficult is that how you manage harm or manage risk will be so specific to the data you're working with, the population you're engaging with and who will be interacting with these systems that trying to do this as a horizontal piece of legislation is a bit of a fool's errand.
Really, looking at different sectors and those who have the expertise in their sector will be a lot more specific and efficient from a regulatory approach. These are the regulators that have expertise in these complex sectors and that already manage risk.
I think there will be a need for a backstop piece of legislation. Other countries have identified this. The U.K. has identified this as an approach that they are looking at taking, but they are waiting to legislate. They're doing the work by sector first and seeing where the gaps that need to be filled.
I think what you're being asked to do as a committee and with this piece of legislation is extremely difficult. It will be very difficult to make sure that we get at the risks we want to target.