Ed Davey makes keynote speech Liberal Democrat Autumn conference

Ed Davey makes keynote speech Liberal Democrat Autumn conference – 14:10

At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem.

In Brighton, the party leader will call for a global pause on super-intelligent AI. Also compare it to a nuclear arms race that could result in technology that could “destroy us all”.

Davey expected to call for a new global movement to work together to protect humanity from the risks of super-intelligent AI. He says that the IAEA was built by nations “working together to control a technology that could destroy us all”. He warns that the future of AI being decided by “a tiny number of the richest and most powerful in California and in Beijing” with no guardrails to slow down development.