Tag: Policy
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We need better conversations on AI and the environment
AI is not one thing. Neither is its environmental impact. We need to keep our eyes, our debates, and our policymaking focused on the problems we’re trying to solve. On the outcomes we’re trying to achieve and the society we want to build. AI can be machine learning, Grok, or basic (mislabelled) data analytics and…
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Who Holds the Power? AI, Data and Democracy
At our fringe meeting at the Autumn 2026 Liberal Democrat Conference in Brighton, 19/9/26, we held a panel event. The UK faces a growing imbalance between dominant US tech firms (increasingly aligned with an illiberal US administration) and rapid, illiberal AI development in China. We explored how Britain can build digital sovereignty while staying an…
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Bournemouth LibDem Conference Sept 20-23 2025
LibSTEMM have organised 2 fringe events which are open to all AI for Liberals: A primer followed by audience discussion on where AI will go next. A 2-part session which will deconstruct the broad term “AI” with some live examples and understand the impact of automation and regulation. Sat 20 Sept 20:15 to 21:30 Highcliff…
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FP10 – Horizon Europe’s 10th Funding Programme for 2028-2034
Whilst we mull over the implications in the UK for the government’s Industrial Policy, and reshaping of organisations such as the UK Space Agency and Alan Turing Institute in the orbit of DSIT (Department of Science, Innovation and Technology), things in Europe have not stood still. The EU Commission have been preparing for future budgets,…