"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
"The announcement that the SMR contract was to be awarded to Rolls-Royce was welcome, but the impact on UK manufacturing is also important. Have the Government made an assessment of how many suppliers in the supply chain are going to be first-tier companies supplying directly to Rolls-Royce, rather than simply …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"My Lords, I support Amendments 493, 494, 502K and 502YI, as someone with an interest in the use of educational technologies, including AI, both in schools and universities. I declare my interest as chair of the Maths Horizons project, funded by XTX Markets, which earlier this year reviewed the maths …..." Lord Tarassenko - View Speech
"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