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Artificial Intelligence: Tobacco

Department for Science, Innovation and Technology written question – answered at on 26 March 2026.

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Photo of Jim Dickson Jim Dickson Labour, Dartford

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of tobacco companies on (a) AI summaries on topics of commercial interest, including the size of the illicit tobacco market, and (b) the accuracy of those summaries.

Photo of Kanishka Narayan Kanishka Narayan Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology has made no assessment of the impact of tobacco companies on the outputs of AI models or their accuracy.

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  • (Citation: HC Deb, 26 March 2026, cW)

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