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• @silkiecarlo Silkie Carlo on x

  Deputy PM @OliverDowden just told @amolrajan the government is using AI to process benefits assessments, giving <20mins to process a claim (down from 4h). This is being done with remarkable secrecy. They're starting the experiment on our country's most vulnerable people #AISummit…

• @silkiecarlo Silkie Carlo on x

  Governments + AI industry want to swamp the conversation on AI with hypothetical risks. AI Armageddon. There's a place for it - but the reality is AI surveillance, censorship & decision-making is already impacting people. Absolutely none of this is on the #AIsafetysummit agenda

• @webdevlaw Heather Burns on x

  The format of the as-delivered transcript of Rishi Sunak's speech on AI is inadvertently funny, because it presents as if it was a tech bro hyperventilating. https://www.gov.uk/...

• @hugogye Hugo Gye on x

  @theipaper He defends the controversial concept of ‘responsible scaling’, ie allowing firms to develop ever more powerful models and only stepping in when a certain level danger of reached. PM says: “Close collaboration with the companies themselves is important.”

• @hugogye Hugo Gye on x

  @theipaper Tech firms have given the UK's AI taskforce “privileged access” to their models - Sunak says companies must prove their models are safe before they're released.

• @dw2 David Wood on x

  This speech by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the Royal Society this morning includes lots of good points. It looks like he has been advised well, on this issue of the risks and opportunities of AI. It increases my hopes for good outcomes at Bletchley Park next week

• @hugogye Hugo Gye on x

  @theipaper Sunak will seek to establish a global expert panel of scientists appointed by *all* countries attending next week's Bletchley Park summit (therefore inc China), to publish a report on “the state of AI science”. He says “a more international approach to safety” is neede…

• @benrileysmith Ben Riley-Smith on x

  Interesting. Rishi Sunak cautions against speedy regulation on AI. “We shouldn't be in a rush to regulate”, PM says. Argues better to encourage innovation for now and invest to understand the concerns. Can then regulate when more is known.

• @1br0wn Ian Brown on x

  Rishi Sunak: AI presents existential risks. But the UK won't “rush to regulate it” 🤔 (Note to PM: regulation and innovation are not the binary opposites your tech bro friends would like you to believe) https://www.theguardian.com/ ...

• @tomhfh Tom Harwood on x

  Techno optimists should take heart from much of Rishi Sunak's speech today. He rightly said that the way to deal with labour market effects from AI is to embrace it as a copilot, not reject it. Feels more grounded than US conversation where they witter on re training copyright.

• @rishisunak Rishi Sunak on x

  AI does not respect borders, so it cannot be developed alone. That's why we're hosting the world's first ever AI Safety Summit next week. We'll work closely with international partners to address the risks head on so we can make the most of the opportunities AI can bring. [image]

• @rhonddabryant Chris Bryant on x

  There are many potential benefits from AI but has Rishi Sunak mentioned the threat to many creative industries' intellectual property and actors, writers, musicians and other authors' means of making a living?

• @rishisunak Rishi Sunak on x

  LIVE: My speech on the risks and opportunities of AI https://twitter.com/...

• @scitechgovuk @scitechgovuk on x

  AI could rapidly advance healthcare, science and energy, but we must harness it safely. Government has released a discussion paper on the risks and capabilities of Frontier AI: https://www.gov.uk/... Read a summary below 👇 (1/4) [image]

• @steven_swinford Steven Swinford on x

  Rishi Sunak says that there can be no serious strategy for AI without engaging with China The UK has invited China to the AI summit at Bletchley Park next week - not yet clear if they will attend

• @katebevan Kate Bevan on x

  “could” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We are a very, very long way off some kind of terrifying sci-fi AI future where the robots “slip the shackles of human control”, and Sunak should know that, not pander to these stupid tropes.

• @davidtwilcock David Wilcock on x

  PM uses AI speech to warn that super intelligent robots could slip the shackles of human control in future, but urges people ‘not to lose sleep about it’, which is fine.