In 2021 Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States began a consultation process to upgrade Canberra’s submarine capability – AUKUS. That now looks highly prescient.
With the UK’s general election mere months away, it will be an uphill struggle to tackle the harms from AI-generated mis-and-disinformation. Nonetheless, we can learn from Taiwan’s experience.
If someone doesn’t have a smartphone at all, with WhatsApp and other speedy communication apps, then they are effectively shut out of a whole world of conversations, gatherings, parties, and gossip.
The NHS which has seen its productivity collapse, and is facing enormous cost pressures as the population ages, must surely be first in line for the application of the tools as they emerge.
The Education Secretary says that the steps the government have already taken towards improving online safety “have yet to be seen by parents”.
A remarkable amount has been achieved. Often against the odds and in the face of adversity. And certainly in circumstances far less benign than those faced by New Labour.
More than 70 per cent of UK AI firms are based in London and we will soon boast Chat GPT’s first research and development base outside the US. We need to capitalise on these strong foundations.
The key problem is stagnation. Margaret Thatcher’s reforms promoted mobility and opportunity. Now we are an economy which doesn’t change enough.
Through their overreaction, they may have handed the UK something quite wondrous: a genuine economic benefit of Brexit.
Wider access to digital opportunities have expanded, particularly with regards to the rollout of fibre broadband and 4G. But our ambition to become a global tech superpower must benefit the entire country.
These proposals would preserve the Government’s ability to defend against consumer harm and regulate the abuse of market power, whilst also allowing the UK to continue to nurture one of the world’s leading digital economies.
The tough choices we are making, to lock up the worst offenders for longer and to rehabilitate the redeemable, are the right ones to protect the public in the long term.
Does Taylor Swift have any rights over songs created in her style by Large Language Models? As we have such an extraordinary cultural heritage here and a dynamic creative sector, we are particularly vulnerable.
Sunak is putting his faith in international regulation. But global efforts to regulate both nuclear and biological weaponry have been far from successful.
Children are lonelier, more anxious, more depressed, and at higher risk of online grooming, self-harm, and suicide.