Extract from Lords debate on Social Media: News Lord Black of
Brentwood (Con):...The digital revolution has been the most
extraordinary transformation in the way that knowledge and news are
transmitted since the arrival of the printing press in the 15th
century, when information housed for centuries in manuscripts in
monasteries first became publicly available. The result was an
eruption in learning from past texts, theological ideas and
astronomical theories that changed the world. Now...Request free trial
Extract from Lords debate
on Social Media: News
(Con):...The digital revolution has been the most
extraordinary transformation in the way that knowledge and news are
transmitted since the arrival of the printing press in the 15th
century, when information housed for centuries in manuscripts in
monasteries first became publicly available. The result was an
eruption in learning from past texts, theological ideas and
astronomical theories that changed the world. Now we have a second
shift in knowledge, which is just as powerful as that, with an
explosion both in the production of content and in global access to
that content, which has changed out of all recognition the way we
communicate, do business, assimilate news, and indeed think and
act. The next revolution, in Artificial Intelligence, will mark a
further fundamental shift in the use of that information. The
consequences of that are impossible to predict...
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Lord Ashton of
Hyde) (Con):...I shall go through as quickly as I can some
of the points that noble Lords have raised. The noble Baroness,
Lady O’Neill, mentioned competition policy. We have a world-leading
competition regime, and we will continue to keep it under review.
The Competition and Markets Authority recently announced a new
technology team to strengthen its ability to deal with competition
issues surrounding algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and big data.
We are also setting up a new Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation,
as I mentioned, which will be well placed to support the CMA in its
work...
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debate on Defence
(Gedling) (Lab):...We
can all name those risks: we have seen the various adventures that
Russia has been involved in; we have seen what has happened with
China and North Korea; we have seen terrible terrorist incidents in
our country; we have seen the identification of risks in respect of
new technologies, cyber and Artificial Intelligence and where
that may take us; and we have seen the undermining of the
rules-based international order. Those are not made-up threats;
they are very real assessments of what our country faces, alongside
its allies and those who stand with us. Parliament has a
responsibility and a duty to debate how we will meet those threats.
That is, I believe, something that the public would expect us to
do...
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