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Liam Byrne
Chair of the House of Commons Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee who, ahead of his committee's hearing with the frontier AI firms, warned that without big new safeguards the richest firms on earth risk unleashing ‘super-criminal codes’ that hack businesses and governments, transform the power of cyber criminals and arm the country's enemies.
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- Oct 2026 – presentChair, Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, House of CommonsThe source names him the committee's chairman ahead of its hearing with the frontier AI firms, and names the committee in full where it reports the firms' written submissions to it; it does not attest when the chairmanship began, so the date given is the earliest a source attests the role.Source →
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12 Oct 2026 · Statement · LBC
But without big new safeguards we risk unleashing ‘super-criminal codes’ that pose immense dangers to our safety and security: hacking businesses and governments, transforming the power of cyber criminals and providing our enemies with dangerous new weapons.
Chair, Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, House of Commons at the time
The second sentence of the same statement. The single quotation marks around 'super-criminal codes' are the page's own, around his coinage. The same page reports written submissions to his committee from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta; those are the firms' words and not a person's, and are no part of this register.
12 Oct 2026 · Statement · LBC
Some of the richest firms on earth are now building software that could transform prosperity, progress and public services.
Chair, Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee, House of Commons at the time
The first of two consecutive sentences of a statement issued ahead of his committee's hearing with the frontier AI firms. The date is the source's: the page prints "Ahead of Tuesday's hearing" and gives no date for the statement itself, so the day carried here is the day the page was published. A Press Association copy; the committee's own release would be the primary.