🚨SCOOP: Starmer's ‘AI opportunities’ advisor didn't publicly declare numerous AI business interests - while he was writing key AI 'action plan' he's now charged with delivering
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-top-ai-advisor-did-not-declare-hakluyt-investment-role
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-top-ai-advisor-did-not-declare-hakluyt-investment-role
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Maybe this just happened organically! Who wouldn't want to invest £22bn in a technology that doesn't exist? Are you not pro-business?
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/silicon-valley-meltdown-china-new-ai-models/
I can’t say I’m surprised though. Just sad.
but apart from repeatedly saying he's corrupt,
and doing corrupt things,
where is your evidence?.
“ChatGPT please give me the name of an AI advisor’
Selling snake oil to credulous but desperate politicians must be the easiest money in the world.
FFS, do either Tory nor Labour gives a shit about democracy? Because keep going like this and it won't be around much longer.
Meanwhile, music industry sending out Macca to make the case against non-consensual AI, trained in copyrighted works
Ask disabled people how computer automation of complex assessments has gone for them. We know firsthand from Labour's last administration how much they love paying tech companies to deal with the awkward desperate people, and we know it ends up killing us.
silent codes shape our future
whose hand writes the dawn
clings to circuits humming coin
machines dream profit
It's like the Tory corruption emptying the public purse during covid.
But his register of interests never mentioned he was an advisor Hakluyt Capital, a £40m AI fund w/close ties to Labour
Also omitted were interests in other tech businesses, including company w/ £27m of NHS contracts
When we asked the government why Hakluyt Capital was never listed in Clifford’s register of interests we were told he had left the company.
But, as we pointed out, Clifford was still listed on Hakluyt Capital’s website....
Clifford's register also does not include numerous AI business interests held through his company Entrepreneur First
As Sue warns, if this doesn't change the public may conclude that AI strategy "is being directed by those with a vested interest."
This just proves I was right.
We understand all his interests were declared to government - who decided not to publish them (?!)
Not like gov hasn't been warned on this:
https://www.spotlightcorruption.org/nao-conflicts-of-interest-management/
Government claims commercial sensitivity
Ex SNP Westminster leader (and sitting Standards committee member) Ian Blackford says that's “failure of government” and "full and effective transparency" needed