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Tech firms urged to put the brakes on AI: Campaigners to call for restraint in protest near Google DeepMind office


Campaigners to call for restraint in protest near Google DeepMind office

This week salaries of around £200,000 were put up for top data scientist jobs with the government as Downing Street said it was ready to bring in “elite teams of engineers” to drive on with advancements. Most of us reacted with an ‘eurgh’, but it means the ruling party has no high ground to run to or place to moan now as the internet becomes flooded with photorealistic parody pictures created by services like OpenAi. Examples include what Liz Truss would look like if she was a lettuce, Sir Keir Starmer as a toolmaker, Good Morning Britain going one better than letting home secretary Yvette Cooper be interviewed by her husband and giving her full presenting duties instead and of course Boris Johnson at a packed out party.

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