Labour’s AI minister has accused the former Conservative government of turning public opinion against artificial intelligence by focusing on “doomsday scenarios”.
Speaking to UKTN, Feryal Clark – the DSIT minister responsible for AI and cybersecurity – said that by concentrating on the “scariest stuff” in its communications regarding the technology, Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government took attention away from how it is benefiting the country.
“[The Conservatives] spent far too much time talking about doomsday scenarios. The front pages of most of our newspapers, when they talked about AI, it was always the scariest stuff…not enough about the real life use cases of AI,” Clark said.
The digital minister did give credit to the previous administration for establishing the AI Safety Institute – now rebranded as the AI Security Institute – but said it only highlighted hypothetical outcomes regarding artificial general intelligence. …
