They're mostly looking at the same issues and policies which have been discussed in the U.S.
It is too soon to set down sector-wide regulations for this nascent field but it is vital that careful scrutiny of the ethical, legal and societal ramifications of artificially intelligent systems begins now."
But the U.S. does not have an equivalent government-funded commission to coordinate policy and partnerships on this. The OSTP has been fulfilling some of these roles.
This comparison between AI and GM crops is very similar to what someone from the White House said about the two technologies recently:
Professor Nick Jennings was clear that engagement with the public on robotics and AI needed “to start now so that people are aware of the facts when they are drawing up their opinions and they are given sensible views about what the future might be”.147 He contrasted this with the approach previously taken towards GM plants which, he reflected, did “not really engage the public early and quickly enough”.148