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Tony Blair and William Hague blast government response to AI

The pair, who once faced each other across the dispatch box as Labour prime minister and Conservative party leader, have called for the UK to establish a ‘national laboratory’ for AI technology. Under the proposed name Sentinel, it is loosely modelled on the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), and would aim to ensure the safe use of AI. ‘Sentinel, a national laboratory effort focused on researching and testing safe AI, [has] the aim of becoming the ‘brain’ for both a UK and an international AI regulator,’ they said. ‘Sentinel would recognise that effective regulation and control is and will likely remain an ongoing research problem, requiring an unusually close combination of research and regulation.’ Financial support for the project would require reallocating funds from other areas of the budget – on the scale of HS2. The report, titled ‘A New National Purpose: Innovation Can Power The Future Of Britain’, notes: ‘Government should review major spending commitments to divert funds towards multi-decade investment in science-and-technology infrastructure as well as talent and research programmes, with a large proportion of this directed at AI.’ It also recommends the government sack its current advisors and instead create a joint policy team between No 10 and the department for science, innovation and technology. More: Lead author of the report Benedict Macon-Cooney added: ‘AI is an era-defining technology and the nations that can harness its potential will b...

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