In August last year, Barnaby Kistruck left his role as the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Director of Industrial Strategy. He had spent his final months helping to write the UK’s blueprint for military AI, a strategy that advocated for a massively expanded role for AI in British defence.
UPDATE: Home Office has won an appeal against High Court's decision. Meaning the ban senior sources at the Home Office have said is ‘absurd’ is now lawful.
Minutes later police have begun arresting pensioners holding cardboard signs.
Is this what you wanted Yvette Cooper & Shabana Mahmood?
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💥 140 MPs have now signed this amendment - most of them Labour MPs
🎯 We urgently need a National Commission on Electoral Reform
⏰ It's time for Proportional Representation
Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
"Almost a third of the hospitals using Palantir's platform report a decline in the number of operations performed."
So much for speeding up the NHS...🙄
https://www.ft.com/content/a3e94197-87a8-4ba5-8a6d-4b7193993af9?syn-25a6b1a6=1
What Trump's administration is doing to dismantle US democracy could happen here. We must future-proof our constitution to prevent that.
I've just asked my MP to attend a parliamentary briefing on what we can do now to defend our democracy.
Do the same: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...