UK risks scandal over ‘bias’ in AI tools in use across public sector
Systems operating across government departments and police forces raise concerns about accountability and discrimination
UK officials use AI to decide on issues from benefits to marriage licences
Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forces
UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity
Exclusive: Department for Education monitoring social media posts from England-based staff for criticism of its policies
Sunak’s global AI safety summit risks achieving very little, warns tech boss
Big tech firms attempting to ‘capture’ meeting of heads of government, says Connor Leahy
North-east ‘utterly forgotten’ amid UK film and TV production boom
Leo Pearlman, cofounder of Fulwell 73, calls on government to back plans for new studio complex in Sunderland
Social media urged to act on violent content after Hamas attack
UK minister calls urgent meeting as EU criticises X over misleading content such as repurposed historical footage
MPs and peers call for ‘immediate stop’ to live facial recognition surveillance
UK police forces and private firms urged to drop technology due to impact on human rights
From Lady Gaga to Lady Penelope: who could play Liz Truss on screen?
A look at actors who could be in the frame amid reports rights sold for miniseries on former PM’s meteoric rise and rapid fall
Gillian Keegan plans to ban mobile phones from English schools
Education secretary to issue new guidance in latest Tory attempt to limit phone usage by students
‘Braverman knows exactly what she’s unleashing’: Ken Loach on his latest, and possibly last, film
The Old Oak, about tensions in a former mining village when refugees arrive, has touched a nerve more raw now than when filming began
Dangerous AI systems need a ‘smoke alarm’, warn UK ministers
Technology secretary, Michelle Donelan, hopes safety summit will help to establish early warning signs in technology
No 10 worried AI could be used to create advanced weapons that escape human control
At global summit in UK, Rishi Sunak will highlight risk of criminals and terrorists using technology to make bioweapons
AI developing too fast for regulators to keep up, says Oliver Dowden
Deputy prime minister to urge UN general assembly to create international regulatory system
‘Seven bins? Not on my watch mate’: Sunak’s green pledges spark ridicule on social media
PM’s claim he has rescued the electorate from multiple recycling bins a particular focus of online lampooning
Meta encryption plan will let child abusers ‘hide in the dark’, says UK campaign
In in Home Office initiative, survivors urge Mark Zuckerberg to rethink changes to Messenger and Instagram