With the AI Safety Summit and the chancellor’s Autumn Statement bookending last month, November provided plenty to dissect for the UK tech industry.
China’s role at the AI summit dominated the headlines, with former Prime Minister Liz Truss among the most vocal critics. With 28 countries in attendance as well as heads of the world’s most valuable and influential tech companies, including Meta, Google, and X / Twitter in town, the event exemplified the magnitude of an issue which has welded itself to the public consciousness in the past year.
It was encouraging to see many of these leaders set aside past preconceptions and geopolitical differences. AI transcends borders and excluding a country comprising 17% of the world’s population would have been an extraordinary omission....