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Almost £150m to be spent on research labs to help future-proof industry and lift creative economyThe government is seeking to future-proof the UK’s multibillion-pound film and TV production industry by investing almost £150m in a network of research labs across the country tasked with developing the next generation of special effects using tech such as artificial intelligence.The scheme aims to build on Britain’s reputation for producing hi-tech hits from Star Wars to Har

Everyone accepts that AI is dangerous. Agreeing about what to do about it – as the EU has started to do – is a different storyLast month, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and face of the artificial intelligence boom, sat in front of members of Congress urging them to regulate artificial intelligence (AI). As lawmakers on the Senate judiciary subcommittee asked the 38-year-old tech mogul about the nature of his business, Altman argued that the AI industry could be dangerous and that the

Report says British state is poorly prepared for radical changes that AI could unleashArtificial intelligence could represent the most substantial policy challenge ever faced by the UK and urgent action is needed to avoid falling behind rival powers such as the US, according to a report co-authored by Tony Blair and William Hague.The former prime minister and the former Conservative party leader, who co-wrote the foreword to the report, said society was about to be “radically reshaped&rdqu