"My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my registered interests as the founder director of Oxehealth, a University of Oxford spin-out which uses AI for healthcare applications and which will be looking for scale-up capital in the near future. I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Stowell, on her excellent …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, a strong emphasis in the AI Opportunities Action Plan is the development of human capital to maintain the UK as one of the leading countries in the world for AI. In the last four years for which the figures are available there has been a decrease of 39% …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I too congratulate my noble friend Lady Bull on securing this debate and making such a strong case for action in just under 10 minutes.
On Monday, we released the final report of the Maths Horizons Project, which I have had the privilege of chairing for the past …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I am authorised to speak on Motion 43A, as someone with regular day-to-day experience of scientific research. Since I started my PhD in 1981, I have had the privilege of spending more than half my working life doing scientific research in the UK—the last 20 years working with …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I rise to speak as the founder of two AI spin-outs, and I draw the House’s attention to my registered interests as the founder-director of Oxehealth, a University of Oxford spin-out that uses AI for healthcare applications. I am also the author of three copyrighted books.
"My Lords, I too congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Brown of Cambridge, on her excellent report. I would not say that it is too long; rather, it is very comprehensive. However, I was surprised that the only research institute mentioned in it was the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich. At another …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I speak in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Kidron, on Amendment 58, to which I have also put my name. Given the time, I will speak only about NHS datasets.
There have been three important developments since the Committee stage of this Bill in mid-December: the 43rd …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Spellar, mentioned the AI opportunities action plan, including the plan to build data centres—among them, the largest UK data centre so far. These data centres, which have been designated by the Government as sovereign data centres, will require SMRs to power them. Rolls-Royce, in …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of this amendment. Anyone who has written computer code, and I plead guilty, knows that large software systems are never bug-free. These bugs can arise because of software design errors, human errors in coding or unexpected software interactions for some input data. …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I support my noble friend Lady Kidron’s Amendment 211, to which I have put my name. I speak not as a technophobe but as a card-carrying technophile. I declare an interest as, for the past 15 years, I have been involved in the development of algorithms to analyse …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech