Top UK Publishing Organizations on AI Protection

A key development in world publishing's response to artificial intelligence technologies, today (October 31), four of the United Kingdom's most prominent publishing-industry organizations have issued an adamant message to the government led by the prime minister, Rishi Sunak.

The Publishers Association; the Society of Authors, a trade union; Association of Authors' AgentsThe association of UK agents. Their website (http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/index.html) gives a Directory of Members and a code of practice, but no information about the agencies other than their names. The association refers visitors to the UK agent listings from The Writers' & Artists' Yearbook on the WritersServices site., and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (referred to by its initialization, ALCS) are making an appeal that points to the importance of this week's AI Safety Summit led by Sunak's offices-and outlines the critical nature of its mission.