The Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology,
has hosted senior (AI) leaders at Downing Street
for a roundtable on the opportunities and risks faced by the UK’s
rapidly-evolving AI
industry.
The Secretary of State began by thanking attendees for their work
in the sector and support on the development of the recently
published AIRegulation White Paper,
and invited their views on how the UK can lead in tackling
AI risks while
promoting innovation and growth.
Discussion centred around three key themes:
- the risks and opportunities presented by AI technologies, and the
guardrails required to ensure safe and responsible AI
- the aspects of AI where the UK should play a
greater role, including global leadership in AI governance and regulation
- the non-regulatory measures which could help to support
growth and innovation by AI companies in the UK
Discussion points included greater access to open datasets,
growing regional centres of excellence to connect SMEs with
researchers, and helping SMEsto scale through
greater access to capital and resources. The group also discussed
the need to regulate in a proportionate way and protect
innovation and with the challenges of the future in mind as
the technology evolves at rapid speed.
The Secretary of State noted that, although the window of
opportunity to act is narrow, the UK must strike a careful
balance between setting regulation that effectively manages
AI risks and
encouraging innovation and growth. The Secretary of State also
made clear the UK’s desire to take a leading role globally in the
regulation of AI,
and to collaborate closely with the sector in doing so.
Attendees:
- Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation,
MP
- Minister for AI and Intellectual
Property,
- Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Dame Angela Mclean
- Baroness Joanna Shields, BenevolentAI
- Matt Clifford, ARIA
-
, SambaNova
- Dr Nikolay Baldin, Synthesized
- Nicola Mrkšić, PolyAI
- Alex Kendall, Wayve
- Simon Proffitt, Faculty
- Louis Mosley, Palantir
- Mohammad Emad Mostaque, Stability AI
- Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face
- Nigel Toon, Graphcore
- Emma Wilkinson, Adarga
- Tim Gordon, Best Practice AI
- Vishal Marria, Quantexa
- Ryan Donnelly, Enzai
- Karim Beguir, InstaDeep
- Brian Mullins, Mind Foundry
