Speeches by Wrigley.

“If the Government fully support our concerns about small but harmful sites, will the statutory instrument be reworked to bring them back into category 1, as the Act states?”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I congratulate the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jeremy Wright) on securing this debate. We have heard some consistent themes coming through. We have heard about Ofcom perhaps misinterpreting what the House intended with the…”

“Learning from the successful Y2K, or year 2000, prevention of systems failures, what progress has the Secretary of State made in considering post-quantum cryptography to prevent the so-called Y2Q—year to quantum—end of privacy, and what support is being provided for the development of quantum computing in the UK after …”

“3. What assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the development of the Google quantum computing chip.”

“Thank you for being here today, Minister. It is great to be able to talk about these things. I come from a long background in digital technologies and worked in mobile phones and all that sort of stuff for a long while. I worry about our generic use of complex terms such as “AI” and “quantum computing”. What people tal…”

“We have some really fundamental potential areas. At the moment, we appear to be trying to regulate the technology and not the use. You do not regulate a wheel; you regulate the car. What is the approach we are taking in an area where we could be seeing some huge steps taken very quickly?”

“Sorry, can you give me a moment and move on to somebody else first, please, Chair?”

“Thank you very much. I am sorry I am slightly diverting. You talked about the Royal Marsden, where my sister is currently undergoing treatment. I love all the innovation and the fantastic things that we can do at the cutting edge. It frustrates me and patients tremendously that they do not have the basics to build on. …”

“I wasn’t expecting one. Can I draw your attention to the excellent work going on at the Exeter former Nightingale site where they have radically changed the way they treat patients? The ideas are largely driven through the Torbay trust. They have extracted to a non-emergency site huge numbers of low-risk, high-volume p…”

“I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I thank the Deputy Prime Minister for allowing the people of my constituency to vote in the Devon county council elections this year, and I congratulate her on seeing through the tired Tory administration, which was seeking to avoid the vote…”

“It is a very interesting dilemma. I have spent a number of years working with start-ups. I was in that sort of industry pre-pandemic, so I have seen all this under a number of things. I am also old enough to remember Napster and digital rights management going through a whole range of this stuff before, and I am wonder…”

“It is a very interesting dilemma. I have spent a number of years working with start-ups. I was in that sort of industry pre-pandemic, so I have seen all this under a number of things. I am also old enough to remember Napster and digital rights management going through a whole range of this stuff before, and I am wonder…”

“The AI that we see right now is fleeting. In two, three, five or 10 years’ time, it will be continuous learning AI. It will not be trained on, “Here’s a language model, this is what you have learned and therefore this is what you can talk about”. It will be continuously learning. It will be always fed data. It will not…”

“This has been very interesting, and I was fascinated that you used the iPad as an example. A lot of people say that that was stolen from the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” in 1968, which had Newspads in its early scenes. That in itself should probably still be in copyright, but there we go. You talked a lot about transpa…”

“They already do. This was the announcement last Sunday, when they were talking about pornography produced by AI now being so good. They already do. We are already there, so I am sorry; it is too late.”

“They already do. This was the announcement last Sunday, when they were talking about pornography produced by AI now being so good. They already do. We are already there, so I am sorry; it is too late.”

“It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Sir Christopher. I am disappointed in this statutory instrument. I recognise the Minister’s acknowledgment of the small sites, high-harm issue, but the issue is far more important and we are missing an opportunity here. Can the Minister set out why the regulations as draf…”

“I do not have the benefit of having gone through the Act in its entirety, so I appreciate the input of hon. Members on this subject. It is that one word: “or”. Amendment 245 entailed moving from a test of size “and” functionality to a test of size “or” functionality. That is not, as far as I can hear from what the Mini…”

“The Minister raised the issue of age verification, which is good. However, she did not say how “harmful to adults”, “harmful to vulnerable minorities” and “harmful to women” are categorised. Children are protected in this case, but those other groups are not. Also, in response to the answer that the Minister just gave,…”

“Absolutely—I am. The Secretary of State’s decision to proceed with this narrow interpretation of the Online Safety Act provisions, and the failure to use the power they have to reject Ofcom’s imperfect advice, will allow small, risky platforms to continue to operate without the most stringent regulatory restrictions av…”