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Nick Clegg
, Issue 1639
CLEGG WORK: Nick Clegg might well say “I disagree with Nick”, considering his shifting views on AI
AFTER his cosying-up to Donald Trump during the election campaign, Elon Musk was declared a “political puppet master” in an interview with the BBC on 6 December. By whom?
Er, Meta attack dog Nick Clegg – whose own boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has himself been getting closer with the president-elect by visiting Mar-a-Lago and donating $1m to his inauguration fund.
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Clegg also claimed that fears that “AI was going to destroy democracy” were over-egged. Who had voiced those fears?
Also Nick Clegg, who had written in the Evening Standard in 2017 that AI development would concentrate wealth and create unemployment which are “a guarantee of more political and social unrest”.
Grappling with leaving the EU, he suggested that “how we ensure artificial intelligence will enhance, not hollow out, society is one of the greatest challenges of our time”.
One £10m bonus from Zuckerberg later, though, and Clegg has spent his year attacking EU lawmakers for “regulatory uncertainty” on AI. Political puppet master? Trebles all round!
AD NAUSEAM
Two of the four major US marketing services groups are set to merge, in a deal that looks like good news for shareholders but not for staff.
COINING IT…
Cryptocurrencies look set to benefit from light-touch regulation under Trump, but regulation over how they’re being peddled to the gullible is less clear.
DOM BRITAIN
Dominic Cummings got involved after an anti-trans provocateur posted an entirely false conspiracy theory about Keir Starmer.
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
The killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson highlighted some of the absurdities of news distribution on social media platforms.
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