Artificial Intelligence: UK policy and global concerns.
A recent document described UK policy on the use of artificial intelligence in the reduction of carbon emissions ( BEIS, 2022). This involves co-funding a ‘virtual centre of excellence on AI innovation and decarbonisation’ and funding projects ‘which further the development of AI technologies to support decarbonisation’. Comment on the document noted the increasing use of AI tools to ‘solve some of society’s current and future challenges’, and referred to the UK’s National AI Strategy. It also noted that while ‘AI has great potential, it can also cause harm’, and referenced the ‘AI Bill of Rights’ proposed for the USA (E&T, 2022). The two themes of UK AI strategy and global concern over the use of AI will be developed below. The UK’s National AI Strategy outlined a ‘ten-year plan to make Britain a global AI superpower’ and foresaw a profound impact by AI on the UK and the wider world during that period (BEIS 2021). The document referred to earlier initiatives such as the 2017 Indu