UK government urged to offer more transparency over OpenAI deal

Select committee chair says public need to be reassured about the use of their data after major failures' in the past

Ministers are facing calls for greater transparency about public data that may be shared with the US tech company OpenAI after the government signed a wide-ranging agreement with the $300bn (222bn) company that critics compared to letting a fox into a henhouse.

Chi Onwurah, the chair of the House of Commons select committee on science, innovation and technology, warned that Monday's sweeping memorandum of understanding between OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, and the technology secretary, Peter Kyle, was very thin on detail" and called for guarantees that public data would remain in the UK and clarity about how much of it OpenAI would have access to.