Monday(ish) AI Resistance Update #8

A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week...--The kids are alright...A rare feel good moment out of Florida which is doing the rounds to start with as the young ones over at the University Of Central Florida give a heartfelt reaction to the 'revolutionary' nature of AI...https://youtube.com/shorts/3Lh2gg0mFNI?si=KtYRWJr6YcQJyqKsArticle - Starmer adviser held 16 undisclosed meetings with top US tech bossesOn a less cheerful note though, and one far closer to home for me, the increasingly rickety looking Starmer government is, unsurprisingly, slobbering all over the big tech boot. It's always a hard one to figure out exactly what the UK expects to gain from giving itself up for pretend AI 'sovereignty' via complete surrender to the passing whims of US tech giants. As with the failed opt-out system for UK data there's a definite ??? in between these poorly thought out plans and some imagined future profit but then that seems to be routine practice here at the moment. Says…