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Last November, the U.Okay. hosted world leaders and tech execs for a summit at Bletchley Park centered on the dangers AI poses to nationwide safety, together with via cyberattacks or bioterrorism.
Clegg, who served as Britain’s deputy PM from 2010-2015, mentioned he “broadly agreed” with the argument pushed by Tony Blair that AI is the more than likely answer to ills like ailing public companies, authorities inefficiency and a stagnant financial system. Blair, a former Labour prime minister, is deeply influential on the brand new Labour administration that changed Sunak’s authorities this summer season.
Asked whether or not Britain had an opportunity to be extra nimble on tech regulation now that it’s out of the EU, which not too long ago handed a sweeping new regulation on AI, Clegg mentioned he had “by no means personally understood” why jurisdictions have been eager to be the primary to legislate.
“What’s the purpose of being a regulatory chief if you happen to’re not a frontrunner in innovation and job creation and improved public companies. Because these are the issues that truly matter to society,” Clegg mentioned.
Broadsides
Clegg’s broadsides come after the founding father of German AI lab Aleph Alpha, Jonas Andrulis, additionally had a dig at AI doomers, saying that the fears across the existential dangers of AI “had not come true.” He was talking on the unveiling of Tortoise’s annual Global AI Index on Thursday.
Andrulis sang from the identical hymn sheet on regulation too, lamenting that Europe had not poured as a lot vitality into innovating because it had lawmaking.
