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Sunak's AI speech raises fears of worker exploitation and missed opportunities
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech setting out how he will address the dangers presented by artificial intelligence while harnessing its benefits at the Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, in London, October 26, 2023

RISHI SUNAK’S light-touch regulatory approach to artificial intelligence (AI) is failing to protect workers from exploitation and reap its benefits for public services, unions and experts warned today. 

The Prime Minister said in a speech that the dangers of the emerging technology should be treated as on a par with those of nuclear weapons and pandemics.

Yet he added that the Tories would not “rush to regulate” AI and offered no policy framework to make the most of its potential benefits.

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