Anthropic tees up huge data centre
Plus Cyber Bill supercharges sovereignty.
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The biggest questions around AI remain unanswered. Who benefits? And how? But what we do know is that trust and adoption are closely linked. To build that trust we need to talk, to help people feel a sense of agency and build legitimacy for the policy changes the country needs. This is the time for national conversations on AI. No politician or policymaker has all the answers, but the combined brain power of the British public might.
Happening Today 📆
Sovereignty supercharged: The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill is back in Parliament this afternoon. Expect the "resilience" part to get more attention post-Anthropic switch-off as the Bill was already becoming a vehicle for sovereignty concerns. A cross-party group of MPs have laid an amendment to force the government to come up with a digital sovereignty strategy within 12 months. A Conservative amendment requires a register of foreign powers. Another amendment concerned with existential risks seeks "last-resort" powers for the government to "shutdown" data centres or models.
In Parliament: MPs on the Business and Trade Committee have three evidence sessions this afternoon on AI and the future of work, interviewing 11 experts ranging from Siemens to Somerset Council.
In the Lords: Luciana Berger has a timely question this afternoon on what assessment the government has made on the impact of online hate speech.
In today's edition:
🏗️ Anthropic lines up a huge investment for a data centres campus on Teesside.
🔞 The social media curbs get a mixed reaction