In the third and final report of our mini-series on AI regulation this week, we look at the gaps between what vendors and government are saying, and what.
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Summary:
The UK government’s rhetoric about data strategy and economic renewal can be compared with what is happening in the real world.
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The UK launched its National Data Strategy last September, after more than two years of Brexit-inspired hiatus, bafflement, shoulder-shrugging, and pettifogging. Yet just a few months earlier in March, 2020 s Westminster eForum on UK data strategy had presented an alarming picture of rudderless government.
At that event, Gaia Marcus, then UK Head of Data Strategy, said:
We knew that we had the solution [the data strategy], but we weren t clear on the problem. So, back in the Middle Ages of this project, when the team was focusing on the work, I commissioned a call for evidence to actually understand that, if we ve all agreed that the national strategy is the solution to a problem, what actually is the problem?