Comment by smallpipe
5 months ago
Matt Clifford just wants to hoover up the Turing’s funding for his buddies at Entrepreneur First. The same Matt Clifford whose interests weren’t declared [1] when he wrote the UK’s AI policy. Why clowns in the government let him is beyond my understanding.
[1] https://democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-starmer-ai-...
Your understanding is quite limited in that case. There are strikingly few people in the uk who can provide a shred of legitimacy to the governments AI plans. It’s precisely because of his “interests” that he knows what he’s talking about.
How much funding from the Turing institute has gone to his buddies at EF?
Avoiding conflicts of interest is key, but lacking interests is worse imo. Having someone with experience in the role has value and I generally think his AI policy is excellent