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UK drops Horizon funding standoff amid weak negotiating position

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20 June 2023 9h18

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.

AI as New National Purpose: Strategic Policy Direction

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20 June 2023 9h18

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Government Data Sharing With Industry: Palantir NHS Controversy

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20 June 2023 9h17

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.

Public Services Technology Requires Money Data Private Sector

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20 June 2023 9h17

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.

UK AI Standards Leadership Through NATO Defence Initiatives

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20 June 2023 9h17

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

National Compute Strategy: Investment and Timeline Ambitions Insufficient

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20 June 2023 9h17

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.

AI in NHS: Investment Over Technology as Reform Solution

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20 June 2023 9h17

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…

Government intervention and risk tolerance in university and procurement reform

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20 June 2023 9h15

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).