Speeches by Kyle.

“As I said, we have not allocated it yet.”

“When you are talking about £13 billion of spending, and yet we have not allocated the 8.5% uplift, it is impossible to say which areas are going to get the uplift, if there is one, or are going to get greater investment. I am sure that it is something that we can return to, but you will see that R&D and life sciences i…”

“I will be pithier next time, I promise.”

“There is a cultural challenge with algorithms in the private sector. I am committed to publishing how algorithms are used in the public sector and in Government Departments. The previous Government published one of the reports, the algorithmic transparency report.[7] I am trying to get us to the point where every Gover…”

“As a rule of thumb, I always agree with what the Ministers in my team have to say, although thankfully I am not accountable for what they say before they become Ministers in my Department. The general point that he was making is a valid one. ARIA is set up for a very specific purpose, and that is to do high-risk invest…”

“Those individual organisations will not interact. The AI Safety Institute needs to have independence to focus entirely on predeployment safety issues in the most conceptual way. You raise a really interesting point on post-deployment. I want to reassure people about post-deployment, where the regulators have power and …”

“To clarify, the previous Government had a voluntary code. I praise the previous Government for establishing the AI Safety Institute. The Prime Minister of the time, Rishi Sunak, did our country good by establishing that, but also contributed towards a global good, because the expertise that has emerged from the AI Safe…”

“Sorry, I should have made it clearer. I commissioned three reports the week I came into office. The first is the AI action plan, which is all about action. As for the two other reports, the digital state of the state is a review that will be reporting in the forthcoming period on every Government Department, its capabi…”

“It might be a gap; I am happy to look at it. If you see areas that I can be doing better on or may have overlooked, I will never be defensive about that. I mentioned the inter-ministerial group before. The first thing we did back in July was put a moratorium on all non-critical digital spend across Government of more t…”

“No, I understand.”

“Via the private sector, yes.”

“My hon. Friend is completely right to say that safety has to be there from the outset. We want our country to safely explore all the opportunities that AI offers, but it can do so only if people are reassured that safety is there from the outset. The UK safety institute is at the forefront of this. It is the first safe…”

“The UK is a founding member of the AI Safety Institute international network. The network convenes for the first time today in San Francisco.”

“The Government are working closely with individual universities, the university sector and our intelligence community to ensure that our research is not only world class but safe and secure.”

“I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for acknowledging my interest in Northern Ireland, which I have already visited since being appointed in order to meet some of the pioneering tech companies there. I will stay committed to ensuring that the Government recognise the talent across Northern Ireland, harnessing it for no…”

“To protect people online, today I became the first Secretary of State to exercise the power to set out my strategic online safety proposals for Ofcom to consider. From increasing transparency to baking safety into social media platforms from the outset, those priorities will support Government in monitoring progress on…”

“I am extremely grateful to my hon. Friend for raising one of the most serious issues of our time. The Online Safety Act 2023 requires providers, as part of their risk assessment, to consider specifically how algorithms will impact a user’s exposure to illegal content and children’s exposure to harmful content. I have i…”

“I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s question, because the first job I ever had was at the Body Shop working for Anita Roddick, and I joined her campaign against animal testing for cosmetics. She would be proud to see me at the Dispatch Box engaging in this conversation. Labour made a manifesto commitment to phase ou…”

“Outside the classroom, the CyberFirst programme has engaged 250,000 young people across the UK. Those are the first steps; this Government will be going further.”

“The Budget gave a pay rise to working people in this country and set the conditions for a stable economy, fixing the black hole left in our economy by the mismanagement of the last Government.”