Report

Challenges in assessing the impacts of regulation of Artificial Intelligence

Think tank: Social Market Foundation

Author(s): Stephen Gibson; Winston Tang

October 13, 2025

This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation discusses the challenges in assessing the impacts of regulation of AI.

The recent surge in Generative Artificial Intelligence has introduced both opportunities and risks to society.

This paper discusses the challenges in assessing the impacts of regulation of AI. It identifies a range of different concerns that might give rise to AI regulation and sets out approaches that may inform the design of AI regulation as well as principles for a robust AI regulatory framework.