If Labour continues to pursue ill-thought-through changes to employment rights, their new deal for working people risks becoming a bad deal — one which harms the workers it is designed to help.
With the UK’s general election mere months away, it will be an uphill struggle to tackle the harms from AI-generated mis-and-disinformation. Nonetheless, we can learn from Taiwan’s experience.
Policy stability is desperately needed to restore confidence, keep costs under control and make offshore wind attractive to investors again.
Focusing on frontier AI threats comes at the expense of less glamourous, but more immediate socio-economic concerns. AI may trigger rising unemployment and worsen social inequalities.
The Government must be careful not to pursue overly restrictive policies in the name of “prevention”. We need preventive strategies that nudge, rather than shove people, towards healthier choices.