The first country to achieve the first superintelligence would be able to use it to stop others following. So it had better be us – not a hostile state.
Laws such as the Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act predate instant messaging and the blurring of the lines between official and personal communication.
We need an honest debate about the right balance between transparency and security on the one hand, and the need for quick decision-making and private deliberation on the other.
Doing so would enable these powerful new AI tools to track the origins and patterns of disease, linking genes and experiences in ways very few health care systems can do. It would require establishing an ethical regime.
Such companies face not only new privacy and safety legislation in the UK, US, and EU, but less savoury demands from autho
A new policy programme from some of the UK’s most innovative businesses and thinkers sets out a range of recommendations for government and regulators to consider.
In order to create the safest AT possible, developers must capitalise on that which makes them most human: their ability to cooperate. The simplest way to achieve this cooperation is to bring them into a shared space.
The approach set out under the REUL Bill risked becoming a parochial and backward-looking distraction. EU regulation should be considered in conjunction with domestic rules and curent economic and social trends.
The changing global landscape should refocus our policy on the factors that are need to improve the investment outlook – such as sound macro polices and the level, predictability and simplicity of tax.
I don’t think that we serve our children or planet well giving in to the counsel of despair. Tackling it is more akin to an engineering challenge – one we know we can do.
It will give the CMA almost unlimited powers to prosecute big tech companies. The Bill is a signal to stop investing in Britain.
In terms of fiscal policy, if the wider economic picture does not allow the debt to GDP ratio to fall, then the focus of the markets will be on the need to keep the public finances in shape.
It is absurd to set a strictly political timetable for the wholesale transfer of an industrial economy to unproven technologies.
Sensible regulation is essential, but to cede the initiative to America, the EU, and China would be an historic folly.
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