Comment by Lord Watson of Invergowrie

Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, has estimated that there is a 10% to 20% likelihood of AI leading to human extinction within a few decades. Earlier this year, a prominent safety expert, Mrinank Sharma, quit his job at Anthropic with the warning...

One of the major effects AI will have on humans is economic displacement. As AI systems become increasingly capable, the risk that human labour will be replaced on a significant scale grows ever more real. Jobs that once required years of training an...

In the 2024 King’s Speech, the Government committed to placing binding regulations on the developers of the most powerful AI models. Almost two years later, we still await legislation to fulfil this commitment. [...] recent models, such as Claude Myt...