Parliament's sovereignty reckoning
Lawmakers push on 'kill switches', AISI 'red lines'.
Happy Wednesday, I'm back in the excellent Wi-Fi coverage area of Norwich, no seriously.
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 📆
At the G7: The US and Europe will discuss a "trusted partner scheme" for frontier AI models today, the FT reports, but a White House official told the New York Post there would be no "carve outs". Politicians, including Keir Starmer, are having lunch today with AI CEOs including Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Arthur Mensch. Starmer, meanwhile, announced a £25m investment in the UK by Indian tech services firm Hexaware this morning.
Future planning: The government's in-house 'Extract' tool, which converts old planning documents into a usable format, is being rolled out to all councils in England. A second prototype, developed by Faculty and Google, which aims to halve the time it takes to process household planning applications, is also being tested in three councils. More details in Faculty's blog.
On the line: Britain needs a domestic production line for its photonics scale-ups, the University of Southampton argues in a report out this morning. Market research carried out by the university’s CORNERSTONE photonics foundry makes the case for silicon photonics — which uses light-based components on silicon chips — being central to a sovereign tech strategy.
Well-timed: The Science, Innovation and Technology Committee will look at how photonics can cut AI's energy demands in an evidence session at 9:30am.
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