Conservative Artificial Intelligence Group - promoting the use of AI for policy and government within the Conservative Partycaig.org.uk Westminster, UKJoined July 2024
LFG🚀 11th December
We must stop the endless doom cycle. No growth. No ambition. Many of us want to try to fix this.
Over the last year, I've led multiple successful campaigns and I know we can push on this - and get Westminster to pay attention - and adopt policies for growth. We just need you.
If you agree, want to hear more, and want to come along on December 11th sign up below!👇 We'll be dropping details over the next few weeks.
LFG🚀
Staying at the forefront of AI development will likely require being able to build 5 gigawatt clusters within 5 years — this is really hard to do.
I spent the last few months digging into the technical challenges and solutions to doing this in the US.
Here’s what I found… 🧵
This would be an insane policy: arts, book publishing and scholarship are massive strengths of the UK. To allow (mostly California-based...) AI enterprises to 'scrape' their work is not just immoral and philistine, but an act of monumental economic self-harm.
As widely rumoured, the UK government is considering legalising gen AI training on copyrighted work without a licence.
This would be a huge betrayal of the UK’s creators. It would mean letting AI companies use creators’ work to build highly scalable AI models that will directly
Join @EmmaThwaites@GavinFreeguard@MRJKilcoyne for a post party conference debrief and a look at the legislative agenda ahead in this webinar from our policy team. Wednesday 16 October 11:00-12:00 BST, get your tickets now.
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Our first Conference reception was a massive success! 🥳 Many thanks to everyone who came, it was fantastic meeting other Conservative members interested in artificial intelligence!
We can build a future where AI drives growth, creates wealth and attracts investment in the UK, strengthening our position on the world stage.
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The UK has a lead in AI, suggesting we could be world centre for the nascent industry. But we are blocking proposed data centres. And we are failing to increase the reliable energy supply that such industry needs.
Both of these need fixing, ASAP
CONFERENCE 2024 - We'll be holding an informal reception/sidebar for party members on Sunday 29th September! 🥳
More details and RSVP below 👇
caig.org.uk/sidebar
CONFERENCE 2024 - We'll be holding an informal reception/sidebar for party members on Sunday 29th September! 🥳
More details and RSVP below 👇
caig.org.uk/sidebar
Michael Bronstein, Oxford prof + one of the world’s leading experts in protein design, has been given £150mn to set up an AI for biodesign lab in Austria
The US equivalent (IPD) has spun out billions of $
Why hasn’t the U.K. backed Michael (or someone like him) to do the same?
Welcome to Vienna BioCenter, AITHYRA - A new research institute focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biomedicine is set to join the Vienna BioCenter
Read more: lnkd.in/dHCpyBNn
Yesterday, the @FT ran a piece about government assurances around compute. We’re confused by the government creating an AI Opportunities taskforce days before canning investment, and now backtracking.
We’ve spoken to multiple insiders to figure out what’s going on. It's bad. 🧵
Significant new precedent established on the politicisation of senior civil
service appointments yet not a peep from @FDA_union or Dave Penman @FDAGenSec
🤐
A 🌹supporter parachuted in to be a senior DG in the Civil Service without an open appointment process.
Where are the Perm Sec, the @SciTechgovuk NEDs, the @instituteforgov or the Cabinet Office Ethics team on
this?
Sue Gray would never have let this happen under previous
We’re presenting the first AI to solve International Mathematical Olympiad problems at a silver medalist level.🥈
It combines AlphaProof, a new breakthrough model for formal reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our previous system. 🧵 dpmd.ai/imo-silver
With the rapid advancement of frontier AI models, companies must ensure that they properly identify, assess, and act on risks.
Our latest report provides an 8-point checklist for companies to implement best-practice risk management and governance. 🧵 buff.ly/3y1ZFXM
What can technical researchers do to assist AI governance efforts? In a new paper, @ben_s_bucknall and @AnkaReuel et al outline Technical AI Governance – technical analysis and tools for supporting the effective governance of AI.
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Super excited to be sharing a new paper, coauthored with @AnkaReuel and many others, on Open Problems in Technical AI Governance. Summary in the thread below.
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