Public Engagement

Submissions Archive

Last updated: 1 May 2026 · Version 1.0

Public record. FAIR engages with Parliament, regulators, and Government departments by submitting evidence, briefings, and consultation responses, in furtherance of its charitable purposes (see the Charitable Purposes page). Each formal submission is published here for public reference, in line with FAIR’s independence and transparency commitments.

Open consultations: pending submissions

ICO: Draft Guidance on Automated Decision-Making, including Profiling

Submitting body: Information Commissioner’s Office

Closes: 29 May 2026

FAIR’s priority area: Transparency & Accountability

Status: Draft prepared for dispatch.

FAIR’s response addresses the ‘solely automated’ threshold under article 22 UK GDPR, lawful basis after the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, the practical obstacles a data subject faces in exercising the rights article 22 confers, recruitment-specific concerns including bias monitoring, and the relationship between article 22 and section 19 of the Equality Act 2010. The submission will be linked here once filed.

DSIT: Growing up in the online world: a national conversation

Submitting body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Closes: 26 May 2026

FAIR’s priority area: AI & Child Safety

Status: Draft prepared for dispatch.

FAIR’s response addresses the published evidence base on AI-related harm to children, including AI chatbots and child suicide (drawing on the published case material in Garcia v Character Technologies and Raine v OpenAI), AI-generated child sexual abuse material (drawing on the IWF’s 2026 report Harm Without Limits), AI nudification and synthetic intimate imagery, AI-enabled grooming and predator misuse, pro-suicide and pro-eating-disorder AI personas, and emotional dependency. The submission will be linked here once filed.

Forthcoming engagement

FAIR is monitoring, and intends to engage substantively where its charitable purposes are advanced by doing so, with the following:

Intellectual Property Office - further work on AI and copyright following the report and impact assessment of 18 March 2026.
Ofcom - finalisation of additional safety measures under the Online Safety Act 2023, including measures concerning AI-generated abuse material.
Ministry of Justice and the Office for AI - any consultation arising from the AI (Regulation) Bill or its successor.
House of Commons and House of Lords select committees - calls for evidence on AI within FAIR’s priority areas.
European Commission AI Office - targeted consultations of relevance to UK-based stakeholders, where FAIR’s engagement supports its charitable purposes.

Closed consultations and engagement

An archive of FAIR’s closed submissions will be maintained on this page once filings are made. Each entry will give the submitting body, the consultation title, the closing date, the substantive question to which FAIR responded, the FAIR priority area engaged, and a downloadable PDF of the submission.

How FAIR decides which consultations to engage with

FAIR’s trustees evaluate each potential engagement against the following criteria, drawn from the Charity Commission’s guidance Speaking out: guidance on campaigning and political activity by charities (CC9):

Does the engagement support the advancement of public understanding of AI, or the advancement of human rights as engaged by AI? If yes, it falls within FAIR’s charitable purposes.
Is the engagement an effective means by which to support those purposes, taking account of the time, evidence, and expertise FAIR can bring?
Is the engagement consistent with the requirement that FAIR remain politically neutral and independent of party-political alignment?
Does the engagement avoid the risk that FAIR’s political activity becomes the reason for FAIR’s existence, in breach of the political-purpose prohibition in CC9?

Publication policy

Each submission filed by FAIR is, except where confidentiality is required by the recipient body, published on this page in full. FAIR’s consent to such publication is given in the submission itself, in line with our independence and transparency commitments.

Independence statement

FAIR is independent of Government, of any political party, and of the AI industry. We do not accept funding from AI developers or deployers, or from any organisation whose commercial interests would be materially affected by the position FAIR takes in regulatory consultations. Each submission carries an explicit independence and conflicts-of-interest statement to that effect.