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AI as New National Purpose: Strategic Policy Direction
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UK drops Horizon funding standoff amid weak negotiating position
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And by swallowing our pride and ending the pointless stand-off over Horizon funding. With such a weak hand, we’re in no place to quibble over the bill.
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Public Services Technology Requires Money Data Private Sector
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We need to have a mature conversation about the trade-offs: there’s no world where we can build high-quality, technology-first public services that don’t require any money, data, or private sector involvement.
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Government Data Sharing With Industry: Palantir NHS Controversy
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we’ll have to become significantly more comfortable with the government sharing data with industry – we’ve already seen successive governments propose changes here only to abandon them following public opposition – like the ongoing row at the moment around Palantir and NHS data.
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UK AI Standards Leadership Through NATO Defence Initiatives
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Moving to international issues – we’ve heard about the gov's aspirations to make the UK an international centre for AI standards. We can do this via @NATO – which is taking important steps in building its own certification start-ups and backing early-stage defence via DIANA
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National Compute Strategy: Investment and Timeline Ambitions Insufficient
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This needs to be matched with an acceptance that innovation can’t be done on the cheap. If you take something like the National Compute Strategy – the goals are entirely correct, but the investment and the timelines just aren’t ambitious enough.
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AI in NHS: Investment Over Technology as Reform Solution
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We face the same challenges in public services – where appeals to AI to drive reform are seen wrongly as an alternative to upfront investment. Several years ago, DeepMind documented why they weren’t able to go in and apply AI to the NHS…
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Government intervention and risk tolerance in university and procurement reform
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Solving these challenges will require a combination of direct government intervention (in the case of universities) and greater political courage and tolerance for failure (in the case of procurement).
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European Defence Innovation Faces Government Procurement Barriers
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If you do get out – good luck navigating a government procurement process, as I’ve documented before in the case of European defence innovation.
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Universities Hinder AI and Life Sciences Spinouts Success
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Currently 21st century founders are stuck operating in feudal conditions – the data from the http://
spinout.fyi survey shows how our universities make it hard for AI and life sciences to escape the ivory tower positioned for success.