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John Grout

We need to talk about the government’s AI plans

By John Grout | Wed 12th February 2025 - 8:46 am

If you asked someone a few years ago which party formed a British government wanting to exempt AI firms from having to adhere to copyright laws  and joining the Trump government in refusing to sign an international declaration calling on AI to be, among other things, ethical, they would almost certainly have assumed it was a Conservative government, not a Labour one.

The reality is that that’s exactly what Keir Starmer’s Labour government is doing.

Both of these should be extremely concerning for us all, but for Liberal Democrats this should ring particular alarm bells.  The government seems intent to hand the majority of the value of the UK’s vital creative industries, estimated to be worth over £120 billion, to unaccountable US tech firms headed by the wealthiest men on the planet, with precious few safeguards for authors, artists, and creators.

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