UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has spoken about the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) tools but said “guardrails” will be put in place to limit the technology’s risks.

Axar.az reports the Prime Minister has travelled to Hiroshima, Japan, where he is expected to speak to the countries present at the G7 summit about the need for a global approach to regulating AI technologies.

Speaking with journalists on the plane to Tokyo, Sunak said that AI is beneficial to the UK but must be introduced “safely and securely with guardrails in place”.

“We have taken a deliberately iterative approach because the technology is evolving quickly and we want to make sure that our regulation can evolve as it does as well,” he said.