On September 22, 2026, the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee invited four AI companies and the UK Government’s AI Security Institute to give evidence at a Commons AI security session scheduled for October 13, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. UK local time.
Who was invited to the hearing?
The committee invited Meta, Google, OpenAI and Anthropic, along with the UK Government’s AI Security Institute. The committee’s events listing classifies the session as Commons oral evidence and labels event details “TBC.”
What questions could lawmakers raise?
The committee’s published possible questions focus on how AI companies should manage safety before and after a model’s release. They include whether independent safety testing before release should be legally mandatory and whether companies should have to report serious incidents.
The incident-reporting examples include deceptive behavior, safeguards being circumvented, unauthorized replication and signs that human control may be failing. The committee also raises the risk of a safety “race to the bottom” among companies or countries, and asks what shared international safety requirements should be mandatory.
How the session fits the committee’s work
The committee says the hearing forms part of its examination of the UK’s economic strategy for AI.
