it is quite laughable to see the UK government be so interested in AI and doing laws about it, when UK basically weights absolutely NOTHING in the AI field.
English policians love to smell their own farts.
It's simple. There's an election coming up—they will curry favour with demographics concerned about AI, thus securing more votes. It doesn't matter if it is just theatre, being seen to be doing something will probably work out for them, despite achieving very little, or perhaps going backwards on many fronts.