My letter in today’s FT quoting the late, great Charles Kennedy

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Jeff McMillan, Chief AI Officer at ⁦@MorganStanley⁩ is interviewed for the *Age of Intelligence* podcast. Very lucid on how corporate execs should approach the technology.

So, if I get this correctly, the answer to 1000+ state level regulatory proposals is to ban all regulation? Because clearly there is no signal that maybe something needs to be regulated?

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RT @Barney_H_Y: London is the second-best city in the world to start an AI startup (and could be #1, in my opinion):. - Abundant early-stag….

RT @HarryStebbings: Everyone has written off the London Stock Exchange. The best companies (Revolut, Monzo etc) will not go public in Lond….

RT @afneil: Time for King Charles to visit Canada, where he is head of state and has every right to go whenever he wants. I have no doubt t….

“Humanity has two choices. A future with safe and ethical AI or one where there is no AI. We are currently pursing the 3rd option. The one where humanity has no future.” Stuart Russell #IASEAI25

RT @cremieuxrecueil: This OPM memo is going to be the most impactful news of the day, but I'm not sure it'll get much reporting. https://t.….

RT @hlntnr: Bad DeepSeek takes flying thick and fast today. Thread of good ones instead:. (all subject to Matt's correct meta-take, caveat….

RT @_KarenHao: As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from De….

RT @soundboy: 1/ In Sifted today, Yann Lechelle is quoted as saying "it will be decades before Europe can build big, big companies like tho….

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“My using technology more effectively”.

Sure there will be #AI titbits in #Budget2024 (“£xm for compute! £ym for skills!”) but key question is what AI-related savings assumption is baked in to projected Gov spending. @InstituteGC have suggested £40bn… Labour’s equivalent of “efficiency savings”. Deus Ex Machina.

Many organisations have internalised that AI is learning and improving from its users. The lived reality is the reverse. AI users are learning from, and being trained by, the systems that they use.

But great focus on:.- Using AI to humanise Government (example is DWP tool to check if you sound in trouble which speeds up response).- Never taking human out of the loop.- Radical Transparency (eg they share code - leading to people downloading and trying to sell back to HMG…).

A slightly rocky start (in Boris Johnson’s time): “If you show them the data and it contradicts what they have always believed then you don’t get invited back to the meeting”.

Laura Gilbert from (the UK Government’s AI incubator) talking at London Tech Leaders on the range of projects that they have delivered