Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government

<p>More than 2,000 cultural figures challenge Whitehall’s eagerness ‘to ­wrap our lives<strong>’</strong> work in attractive paper for automated competitors’</p><p>Original British art and creative skill is in peril thanks to the rise of AI and the government’s plans to loosen ­copyright rules, some of the UK’s leading cultural figures have said.</p><p>More than 2,000 people, including leading creative names such as Mark Haddon, Axel Scheffler, Benji Davies and Michael Rosen, have signed a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/series/observer-letters">­letter published in the </a><em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/series/observer-letters">Observer</a></em><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/series/observer-letters"> today</a> calling on the government to keep the&nbsp;legal safeguards that offer artists and writers the prospect of a ­sustainable income.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/23/dont-gift-our-work-to-ai-billionaires-mark-haddon-michal-rosen-and-other-creatives-urge-government">Continue reading...</a>