Something for the weekend - make AI public sector professionals adhere to an ethical Code of Conduct? Says who? (And how?)

People want public sector AI professionals to be publicly registered and held to the same sort of Code of Conduct as lawyers or doctors - or so the UK's BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is claiming on the back of some new research it commissioned. According to the body:

Being professionally registered, and proud to have signed a Code of Conduct, should be an expectation of technology practitioners hoping to be recruited to public sector technology roles.

If acted upon that would have some interesting implications on the delivery of the UK Government's stated strategy of using AI to re-invent the public sector, as articulated in hugely (ridiculously unachievable?) ambitious terms earlier this year by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But is this register idea realistic or even credible?

Let's drill down. The BCS research, carried out by YouGov, had a polling base of 2,202 people. Who ...