{"id":19515,"date":"2025-07-22T16:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-government-urged-to-offer-more-transparency-over-openai-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T14:37:55","slug":"uk-government-urged-to-offer-more-transparency-over-openai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-government-urged-to-offer-more-transparency-over-openai-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after \u2018major failures\u2019 in the past<\/p>\n<p>Ministers are facing calls for greater transparency about public data that may be shared with the US tech company OpenAI after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/21\/openai-signs-deal-with-uk-to-find-government-uses-for-its-models\">government signed a wide-ranging agreement<\/a> with the $300m (\u00a3222m) company that critics compared to letting a fox into a henhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Chi Onwurah, the chair of the House of Commons select committee on science, innovation and technology, warned that Monday\u2019s sweeping memorandum of understanding between OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman, and the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, was \u201cvery thin on detail\u201d and called for guarantees that public data would remain in the UK and clarity about how much of it OpenAI would have access to.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/jul\/22\/uk-government-urged-to-offer-more-transparency-over-openai-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b29cded5aaffea8989ffa572846f0b7eaa38be6e\/500_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c4f681a9cea3dc963587bb40e1bf970a\" title=\"UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal\" \/>Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after \u2018major failures\u2019 in the past<br \/>\nMinisters are facing calls for greater transparency about public data that may be shared with the US tech company OpenAI after the government signed a wide-ranging agreement with the $300m (\u00a3222m) company that critics compared to letting a fox into a henhouse.<br \/>\nChi Onwurah, the chair of the House of Commons select committee on science, innovation and technology, warned that Monday\u2019s sweeping memorandum of understanding between OpenAI\u2019s chief executive, Sam Altman, and the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, was \u201cvery thin on detail\u201d and called for guarantees that public data would remain in the UK and clarity about how much of it OpenAI would have access to. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after \u2018major failures\u2019 in the past Ministers are facing calls for greater transparency about public data that may be shared with the US tech company OpenAI after the government signed a wide-ranging agreement with the $300m (\u00a3222m) company that critics &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/uk-government-urged-to-offer-more-transparency-over-openai-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}