Starmer at London Tech Week warns tech firms on child safety
At London Tech Week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned tech firms that the government will legislate if platforms do not stop children sharing explicit images. He said, "The pace of change cannot be an excuse for harm, and where technology poses a threat to our people, to our children, we will act quickly and firmly." Starmer framed the move as part of a wider push for tougher online-safety rules that would impose clear legal duties on companies to prevent child sexual imagery.
The PM is giving a speech at London Tech Week. He started speaking a couple of minutes ago, you can either watch live, or click back to watch from the start. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aswS...
Claire S (UK not USA)20Getting on with his job unlike Burnham who has abandoned his electorate to fight an unnecessary by-election.
La Reine des Metaphores3According to the @theguardian.com @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social this is a "legacy" thingy. I really wish Andy Burnham was worth all this bad faith.
AI is the biggest economic opportunity of our time, and every London business should benefit. Today at London Tech Week, I’m launching a £12 million programme to help small businesses adopt cutting-edge tech and create high-quality jobs.
Pollik8Can we do more about the safeguarding please? Countless examples exist of AI simply making stuff up (famously so, in US courts)
Captain Hurley 🇺🇦 🇵🇸3What sort of small businesses? I would hope, only science and engineering forms, who use *actual* AI as opposed to the cultural and intellectual disaster that is LLM's.
Tanya Powell3While I appreciate the initiative, I'm not sure £12 million is enough. How many businesses are you hoping to help? What does adoption mean in practice? And is the goal toward build sovereign capability, or to help businesses become customers of American platforms?
bogwoppitt59.bsky.social3All those made unemployed because of AI will be chuffed I’ll bet
KittenKoder3Fuck your ai slop, no one wants it, and we are destroying technology to get rid of it. Your businesses will all fail because of it, and us older geeks are done fixing that shit for you fucking cunts.
David Neil Robinson3AI is a deadend and a scam because LLMs are not AI they are language Parsers that make the hardware they run on more stupid. We also need social housing and not Data Centers everywhere draining and boiling the Thames.
StoptheFarRight2Companies are rolling back their AI initiatives when they realised it costs more than a regular employee and the quality of the output is worse. At the moment there is no way to calculate the ROI for any given task with AI. AI needs strict regulations and assurances that jobs will not be lost.
