Fighting fire with fire? Plan to make UK the world leader in AI.

If it helps free hospital staff to care for patients and teaching staff to teach then I welcome it.

It was called the new industrial revolution so even jaded old me is slightly excited by it.

Regulation and subsequent monitoring is essential though.

Elegran
This article is just a smidgen of the good AI can do.
Like myself and 2 family members who work in tech understand what good it can do.

www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2020/06/22/10-wonderful-examples-of-using-artificial-intelligence-ai-for-good/

It is meaningless tosh. Anyone can make aspirational speeches about what will happen in the future, but unless you then indicate how you intend to reach that nirvana, it is absolutely meaningless.

I am sure every other developed country has such aspirations. We heard similar speeches from various poiticians when in power about the wonders electric cars and battery plants would have in taking the economy forwards - and we can see what is happening there. The cars are made in China and the efforts to build battery plants has been disastrous.

As for our history of developing technology, yes we do - and then sell it off to the highest bidder, usually American and they make the money.

Starmer has given some good speeches lately.

I liked the way he emphasised the historical success of the UK in developing new technologies. I thought he spoke well, understood what he was talking about and seemed to be on top of the brief.
I agree that it is important to be at the cutting edge of development, given the skills that already exist in the UK.

It is inevitable, so we should try to be at least prepared, if not ahead of the game.

Listening to people yesterday waxing lyrical about its uses - it is clearly not all bad, and one hopes that the areas which could be really problematic will be tackled and mitigated against , as far as possible.