Baroness Harding of Winscombe (Con): My Lords, I too congratulate the three excellent maiden speakers today and wish the noble Lord, Lord Dixon, luck in a few minutes’ time.

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My Lords, I too congratulate the three excellent maiden speakers today and wish the noble Lord, Lord Dixon, luck in a few minutes’ time. I will restrict my comments to technology. Much of the gracious Speech involves and impacts tech, but I was sad to see nothing that holistically addresses the positive and negative impacts of technology, especially AI, on society. There was no resolution on protecting copyrights, no updated online safety Bill for the AI age, no approach to societal guardrails for superintelligence and indeed no AI Bill at all. Instead, there are various references to growth b

My Lords, I too congratulate the three excellent maiden speakers today and wish the noble Lord, Lord Dixon, luck in a few minutes’ time. I will restrict my comments to technology. Much of the gracious Speech involves and impacts tech, but I was sad to see nothing that holistically addresses the positive and negative impacts of technology, especially AI, on society. There was no resolution on protecting copyrights, no updated online safety Bill for the AI age, no approach to societal guardrails for superintelligence and indeed no AI Bill at all. Instead, there are various references to growth b…

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