IFET founder Darren Jones MP speaks with the Observer about AI potential

This week our founder Darren Jones MP spoke to the Observer about the importance of highlighting the positives of technology and AI adoption. Darren discussed the potential economic improvements that greater use of technology in the UK economy can bring, helping solve the UK’s current productivity and investment issues.

His interview included a discussion about the imperative to have a safety framework covering social impact, privacy, security, and equality which states must make the case for. But states, in providing the basis of digital infrastructure, should facilitate a much wider ecosystem which promotes bottom-up innovation.

In changing the framing of the AI debate from one of fear to one of hope, Darren made clear to the Observer the potential of technology adoption in ‘improving the quality of education for our kids, or clearing the backlogs in the NHS, or getting people better jobs.’

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