Party leader claims proposed new retrospective laws are unfair and Reform would retaliate with a crackdown on union funding if elected
According to Sky News, Paul Nowak, the TUC general secretary, is going to make a statement to the conference at about 10.30am explaining the TUC’s revised position on how party funding laws should be reformed.
Jonathan Reynolds has said that people should not get “hyperbolic” about the risks posed by AI. Speaking ahead of Louise Haigh’s speech to the TUC later, which will address the topic (see 9.31am), and in the light of the ongoing concerns expressed by AI experts about the risk of AI models posing a threat to humanity, Reynolds told the Today programme:
This is extremely powerful technology, and I think we should never be complacent or naive about the impact it might have.
People will be worried by some of the things they’ve heard in the last few weeks, and I think we’ve got to be careful not to get hyperbolic about this either.
Because of the power of this technology, I wouldn’t say I wasn’t worried.
What I would say is I’m clear-eyed about the best ways to keep the country safe, and that has to be using British innovation, British expertise, British specialisms in such a way that actually improves the position of the UK in terms of the safety.
I’ve got to be honest, I don’t think that it’s a particularly helpful way to think about how we manage the risks. I’m not really sure what that would actually mean in practice.
To state the obvious, these frontier models are in the main being developed in the US and in China. So exactly what would that mean? I’m not sure what the proposition is.
