"May I ask the Minister a follow-up question to the one I asked previously? He is absolutely right that UK Biobank should get in touch with the institutions where the principal investigators are based, but a lot of inadvertent leakage, if you will, of the data occurs from the researchers …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"I declare two conflicts of interest. First, I was a participant in UK Biobank, having been recruited in Oxford in 2007. My wife is also a participant and has been far more assiduous—for example, she underwent whole-body imaging about two years ago, which took a whole day. We are both …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, the proportion of home students in full-time postgraduate study has fallen from 46% to just 29% in five years. At the start of a PhD, a home student with a typical undergraduate loan will have a debt of around £55,000. At the end of the PhD, that debt …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, the second International AI Safety Report is being published today. It is a scientific assessment, guided by 100 experts from 30 different countries and chaired by Yoshua Bengio, one of the three so-called godfathers of AI. A key finding is that general-purpose AI capabilities are improving more quickly …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, Amendment 227 is in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron. We started with AI during Oral Questions what is now yesterday afternoon. We considered the use of AAI in the debate on Amendment 209 yesterday evening. We are now back with AI within edtech. …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"Very briefly, given the time, I just want to reassure noble Lords, particularly the noble Lord, Lord Storey, that none of the amendments—not just mine—stops the use of edtech; they introduce rules for its development and introduction into schools. For example, the whitelist is an irreducible minimum to ensure that …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Hunt, on securing this debate, but it is going to take a superhuman effort to give an intelligent speech on this topic in four minutes. Paradoxically, Google DeepMind’s paper on artificial general intelligence, AGI, has the best definition of superintelligent AI or …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak briefly about the lack of scientific evidence for Amendment 94A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Nash. No one disputes that rates of suicide, depression, anxiety and self-harm have increased among teenagers in the last decade. However, the question before us is whether …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, several European countries, including Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland, have recently launched their own sovereign large language models to reduce dependence on models from the US and China. Now that hardware compute capabilities are no longer an issue in this country, is it not time for the UK …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech