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.
POLICY
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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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UK R&D Investment and Institutional Change Panel Discussion
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Last week, I spoke on a panel organised by @InstituteGC with @darrenpjones and @benedictcooney about UK investment in R&D and the need for institutional change. We covered a bunch of interesting themes, so I’ve summarised some of the notes I prepped ahead of the session.
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AI Transition Will Be Bumpy, Requires People Power
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the transition to this ai future is going to be very bumpy – benefits will be more unevenly distributed than in the past waves… people power drives progress as much as technology does. it‘ll need a lot of people power to smoothen out this transition
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The Importance Of AI Policies: Laying The Foundation For The AI Revolution
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The Importance Of AI Policies: Laying The Foundation For The AI Revolution
#AI #AIio #BigData #ML #NLU #Futureofwork @ahier @guzmand
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UK Takes Important Initial Steps on AI Safety
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big first steps by the uk on ai safety. great to see!