Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know The Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill began its House of Lords committee stage on 1 September 2026, having been promised in the July 2024 King's Speech and introduced in November 2025. Crossbench peers Baroness Kidron and Lord Tarassenko tabled amendments to pull AI vendors into scope — a duty to show products cannot cross “red lines” such as evading human oversight — plus an emergency power to order datacentre or AI-system shutdowns. Cyber security minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra rejected both, saying regulating AI providers here “would not prevent their misuse by hostile actors”, and pointing to the AI Security Institute's pre-release testing instead. The duties land on whoever runs the systems: managed service providers, data…
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