International Relations and Defence Committee

16 September 2026

Committee Actual start House of Lords

19:06 - 21:07
Speaker 1
Good morning and welcome to the International Relations and Defence Committee of the House of Lords. 

Today we have been looking at the multilateral system and specifically now we are looking at how it relates to artificial intelligence.  I've received apologies from Lord Houghton and Lord Darroch.  Our special advisor Andrew Erhardt is in Boston today and is in the middle of the night clearly joining us by Zoom.  I thank you very much for making yourselves available today for our interrogation and addressing this subject of how the multilateral institutions might deal with the problems and difficulties of AI. 

So I remind you and others that this session is being streamed live on Parliament TV.  A transcript will be taken and you will be able to correct any minor changes in that as well.  You'll get a copy of the transcript.  And I remind members that if they have relevant interests, they should declare them.  And I declare that I'm a senior counselor with the Washington-based Cohen Group right at the very beginning. 

So if I could ask the first question. 

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