{"id":143453,"date":"2025-05-30T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143453\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:52:16","slug":"uk-tech-secretary-dined-by-sam-altman-on-the-cheap-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143453\/","title":{"rendered":"UK tech secretary dined by Sam Altman\u2026 on the cheap \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two weeks before the meeting with Altman, Kyle told an AI industry conference in California that the U.K. would be \u201can agile, proactive partner\u201d to tech firms, and invited them to train and deploy their technology in the country.<\/p>\n

But Kyle admitted \u201cregret\u201d<\/a> last week over the U.K. government’s messaging around AI and copyright. The U.K. government described proposals to require copyright holders to \u201copt out\u201d of AI model training as its \u201cpreferred option,\u201d causing uproar among artists and creative sector groups.<\/p>\n

OpenAI, meanwhile, has argued<\/a> an \u201copt out\u201d model doesn\u2019t go far enough to encourage AI investment in the U.K., and has also pushed back against attempts to place transparency duties on AI firms.<\/p>\n

In November Kyle argued<\/a> the U.K. should exercise a \u201csense of humility\u201d and use \u201cstatecraft\u201d when dealing with U.S. Big Tech firms.<\/p>\n

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and OpenAI have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just two weeks before the meeting with Altman, Kyle told an AI industry conference in California that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1942,1394,748,37936,2814,12495,1396,393,4884,806,1144,60394,712,53,11587,16,15,49,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-143453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-big-tech","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-copyright","13":"tag-data","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-dumping-duties","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-industry","19":"tag-northern-ireland","20":"tag-peter-kyle","21":"tag-scotland","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-transparency","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114595466041758658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}