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The UK’s National AI Strategy: setting a 10-year agenda to make the UK a “global AI superpower” | Allen & Overy LLP

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Why do we need a National AI Strategy

The AI Council recognised that its Roadmap of sixteen recommendations (regarding R&D, skills and diversity, data, infrastructure, public trust, investment and adoption) would need to be rolled out over time and therefore, it encouraged the UK Government to produce a National AI Strategy.

In its published form, the National AI Strategy (the Strategy) sets out a 10-year plan to make the UK “a global AI superpower” building on research and development success in the field as well as previous AI Sector Deal investment and establishment of AI bodies and structures (not least the AI Council and Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)).

The Strategy notes specific goals for the UK to experience significant growth in AI discoveries made, commercialised and exploited in the UK, associated economic and productivity growth and to establish a trusted and pro-innovation AI governance system. But more generally, the Strategy mirrors other recent publications, highlighting the UK Government’s desire to provide a pro-innovation environment, with a business-friendly regulatory framework, whilst protecting the public and fundamental values.

The Strategy differentiates AI (defined as “machines that perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, especially when the machines learn from data how to do those tasks”) from other technology or digital policy, calling out features that the UK Government considers require a unique policy response. These include, for example, questions regarding liability, fairness, transparency bias, risk and safety arising from AI system autonomy and algorithm complexity; issues regarding greater infrastructure requirements necessary to perform; multiple skills sets necessary and lengthy commercialisation journeys.

The three pillars

The National AI Strategy points to three core pillars:

• Investment in long term needs of the AI ecosystem-to ensure competitiveness
• Supporting transition to an AI enabled economy-considering all sectors and regions
• Ensuring the right national and international governance of AI technologies-working with global partners to promote responsible AI development

It identifies…

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Tax hikes are back on the agenda in Sacramento – Daily Breeze

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With 1 million signatures in and several potential challengers, the recall drive against Gov. Gavin Newsom may be causing him to reconsider some of his more progressive policy positions. In his recently unveiled $4.5-billion stimulus program, he offered — get this — tax relief, not tax hikes.

The so-called “Equitable Recovery for California Businesses and Jobs” plan includes $575 million for small business grants, $777.5 million in tax credits to businesses that hire or retain employees, some sales-tax exemptions and $600 checks to low-income Californians.

Of course, it also contains the usual slop like $1.5 billion in subsidies to buy electric vehicles but, nonetheless, we take victories where we can get them in Taxifornia.

Newsom’s September pledge to oppose new taxes was fairly explicit: “In a global, mobile economy, now is not the time for the kind of state tax increases on income we saw proposed at the end of this legislative session and I will not sign such proposals into law.” The irony is not lost on us that the governor said this while also endorsing Prop. 15, the failed $12 billion tax hike — and latest attempt at gutting Proposition 13 — on the November ballot. But his remarks did provide a bit of assurance to the state’s job creators.

On the other hand, there is no such hesitancy to push tax increases in the California Legislature. Proposing a “tax increase du jour” is in the DNA of Democratic legislators. Here are just a few of the bills causing anxiety among those Californians who want to keep at least some of the money they earn.

Assembly Bill 65 by Assemblyman Evan Low would create a California Universal Basic Income. It is like AB2712 presented last legislative session, which proposed to raise the necessary money either through a value-added tax, raising corporate taxes or implementing a tax on services.

Assembly Bill 71 by Assembly members Luz Rivas and David Chiu creates a $2.4 billion homeless fund. The devil’s in the details, however, and the bill suggests the money could come from increases in income tax rates on individuals making over $1 million, increasing corporate income taxes, and collecting taxes on increases in the value of…

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Socialist agenda has been rejected | Journal-news

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The 2020 presidential election is disgraceful for lack of voting security. Security can be better. Computer security was better before the internet. When I worked for the Navy about 40 years ago, our computers inspected for security under the TEMPIST rules. Our computers could not send any secure signals because they were in screen rooms and we shut the doors as needed.

Today, we have computers connected to the internet, that has software and potentially hardware firewall protections. But as WWII Germans and Japanese did not know fully, the Allies cracked their codes and we read their mail. Hackers are often successful too.

Apparently, some voting machines have been designed to be hacked so that bogus vote counts can be created. Obviously, since thousands of precincts use such machines, it is a problem that can be evidenced by the greater Trump voter enthusiasm, Republican gains down ticket, and the many reports of voting machine glitches.

West Virginia now has super majorities in both houses. That has not happened in the last century. Democrats lost seats in the US House and may not gain any in the US Senate. The socialist agenda has been rejected by the people.

We must have voting machine security. I believe that a coup was attempted as in Venezuela for socialist/communist Hugo Chavez, which has produced quite low quality of lives for its people.

I have had relatives leave communist countries for the West. They left all they had for a better life.

I hope that we do not feel compelled to find a better country, leaving all we own behind.

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Cyber Security Strategy 2020: Civil society experts slam ‘national security’ agenda – ZDNet

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Cyber Security Strategy 2020: Civil society experts slam ‘national security’ agenda  ZDNet
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