AI Regulation: The 'Mayhem' Bill

As AI adoption reaches a fever pitch among UK businesses, regulators are moving fast to install "guardrails." The latest legislative proposal, colloquially dubbed the 'Mayhem' Bill, focuses on the black box of training data.

Transparency at the Core

The core of the new bill requires any company deploying a commercial-scale LLM (Large Language Model) or generative AI agent to provide a "Data Provenance Report."

Impact on UK Founders

If you are building atop OpenAI, Anthropic, or Meta's Llama models, you might assume you are safe. However, the bill suggests that the deployer—that is, your company—is responsible for ensuring the model meets UK transparency standards.

Key Requirements

• Audit Logs: Maintaining logs of all prompt-to-output transformations.
• Red Teaming: Proof that the AI has been tested for safety flaws within UK contexts.
• Liability Coverage: Mandatory insurance for AI-driven automated decision making.

Preparation Strategy

Founders should not wait for the law to pass. Beginning an internal "AI Audit" now will save thousands in legal fees later.

We will continue to track the bill as it moves through the House of Lords.