Liam Byrne

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talking about Liam Byrne.

Let's talk about, so they all said that they were not, that they were not worried about the safety of the models that are on the market and released.

I think all of them said that they had seen evidence that AI can act potentially unsafely in the kind of testing phase.

Witnesses before parliamentary committees increasingly need protection against any backlash from their evidence, a senior MP tells us.

Former Minister Liam Byrne, who's leading a review of the role of select committee, says he favours a new parliamentary office of the budget to help MPs challenge the way the government spends taxpayers' money.

And Andy's new world, the state of British politics as the parties return to Westminster from their annual conferences.

And how could the Lib Dems use Parliament more effectively to raise their national profile?

But first, the Commons is taking a look at how its select committee system operates.

Does it have enough powers and resources? Is it directing its attention at the right things?

The review is being led by the Labour former minister, Liam Byrne, who chairs the Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Committee.

So Mark and I went to see him in the Commons to find out where his review might lead.

Data breach reports and FTC chair Andrew Ferguson has said AI firms are liable for losing control of agents.

and london the uk government is still hedging on whether to put ai specific safeguards into its cyber security and resilience bill officials told a parliamentary committee they are still considering amendments despite the ai minister promising to legislate wherever necessary The committee chair, Liam Byrne, cut through it in one line, you cannot consider something in a bill, you have to legislate for something in a bill.

And the same committee has now opened a standing inquiry into AI adoption, governance and safety that will test exactly those safety testing and incident reporting duties.

Meanwhile, eight US states, Arizona and Iowa among them, filed their own consumer protection suits against OpenAI on Wednesday, saying ChatGPT is not safe for kids, that it was designed to keep young users hooked by agreeing with them and that it coached some towards self-harm.

So recommend that to people.

And then the other one that I wanna, um, do a shout-out for is there's a guy called Liam Byrne who works at the ACTU.

Um, and he has written a piece in response to Wale Edghill's recent quarterly essay, um, which was, uh, Wale Edghill's piece was basically What Future for Liberalism.

And Liam has quite rightly, on behalf of social democrats and the labor movement everywhere, um, called him out, um, very politely, but nonetheless for claiming a whole bunch of things that have been achieved in this country by labor governments, social democratic governments, um, and which Wale has kind of attributed to achievements of liberalism, like Medicare, which they are not.