Kiran Stacey
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first heard Jun 2026
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unit, this new centre, whatever it is, is going to be there to try and identify to people when campaigns, uh information is out there, looks like it's homegrown, but is actually being deliberately sown by a foreign power.
It sounds, if I'm being honest, like the kind of thing that GCHQ probably already does quite a lot of.
So this might end up being a bit more money for a few more people in GCHQ to focus on that.
Um look you know, let's wait and see.
Maybe it's a whole new institution uh and a new quango that Andy Burnham has suddenly set up here.
Yeah, I mean Donald Trump actually has kind of
I I wouldn't say necessarily shifted his position, but has really leaned into this argument in the last few days that these warnings about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity are, as you say, Lucy, uh a hoax.
They called it a a kind of globalist conspiracy at some point uh during the meetings in New York.
My guess is he spies here an opportunity for the US to take some strategic advantage to really make
Make itself the home of AI and and thereby boost domestic growth while other countries are kind of fretting about what the consequences of the technology might be.
Yeah.
Let's just kind of flesh out where we are globally.
As you say, we've got the US and China way ahead of everybody else pulling ahead uh with the technology, but also in the US's case does have a well respected safety institute.
The UK is probably joint number three in terms of the technology with France, but as you say, has particularly tried to position itself as a leader on regulation.
And that dates back from when Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister and convened the first ever AI
Safety summit which happened in Bletchley Park.
I was there at that and it felt like a very kind of pioneering cutting-edge thing to be doing at the time and now is a conversation that the whole world is having.
The thing is, the UK is also in this slightly difficult position of always wanting to mediate between the more safety conscious EU and the more gung-ho US, and hoping to position itself somewhere in the middle of those two.
So there is a risk here that the U the UK just gets caught floating somewhere mid-Atlantic, which is always the risk when the UK tries to play power broker between the US and the EU.
Yeah, I mean look, I I agree with John uh I I I I disagree that I think there's any art of it here.
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