Governments should enable and legislate technologies, not endorse them

After admitting that AI was going to cost jobs, Britain’s technology secretary Liz Kendall has now ‘asked the public to embrace AI’ reports The Guardian. This is certainly an odd thing for government to do on the heels of Farage parotting talking points for Stack, a cryptocurrency firm in which Kwasi Kwarteng is involved. Mr Kwarteng was once chancellor to Liz Truss who had a famously successful stint as the Prime Minister for all of 49 days. Meanwhile Claude Mythos has supposedly not only learnt to find exploits in code faster than any human but also has found them in code that is as much as 27 years old and that nobody had realised existed all this while. I understand having skin in the game. The government’s £500 million investment in Callosum and the initiative to make supercomputers available to companies developing AI both count as sound attempts at enabling a home-grown AI market (even if it is all coming too late). And just as the government has been working on better…