No voice, no deal
Unions tell ministers they need a fresh plan.
Happy Monday,
I'm off to London after a very pleasant Sunday morning at a nature reserve spotting an otter and heron.
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- The break-up of DSIT
- Andy Burnham's tech strategy
- Government announcements at London Tech Week
- The revamp of the Tony Blair Institute
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Happening Today 📆
Bill please: Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights calls for an AI Bill after finding that existing law leaves people "seriously unprotected", in a report published this morning. The cross-party committee is chaired by Alex Sobel, whose bill to stop the development of "superintelligent" AI has the support of more than 70 lawmakers. The committee concluded that AI poses "novel and serious" threats to equality, privacy and the right to redress which current laws weren't designed to tackle. It also recommends a new independent AI oversight body on a statutory footing.
In Brighton: The TUC Congress is underway in Brighton with Angela Rayner among today's speakers. The AI-related motions won't get voted on until tomorrow (more below), but there is a debate today on "taxing the tech giants".
Money Monday: Two scientific institutes are getting £162m of public money, the government announced this morning. The Rosalind Franklin Institute gets £67.7m to work on next-generation health tech, while The Henry Royce Institute will receive £95m for advanced materials research.
In today's edition:
🌹 Unions call for a 'new national AI plan' as TUC Congress begins
👩💻 The latest job moves and vacancies
