Lord C-J launches Select Committee report on AI :"We Need an Ethical Framework"

Recently I helped to launch the report of the Select Committee Report on AI which I chaired. This is a piece I recently wrote about the Report and its implications.

Barely a day goes by without a piece in the media on a new aspect of AI or Robotics, including in today's Gulf Today I see. Some pessimistic others optimistic.Read more

by Tim Clement-Jones

Lord C-J urges better filtering for minors by Public Wifi providers

Recently I asked a couple of  questions in the Lords about why standards of filtering for Public WiFi are worse than those adopted by the mobile operators.Read more

by Tim Clement-Jones

Launch of China Cultural and Creative Industries Reports 2013

Last week I helped to launch a fascinating set of reports on China's creative industries edited by Professor Trish Walker and Professor Hardy Yong Xiang.

See the weblink here:

http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-38157-7

I've done a foreword in which I discuss the opportunities for creative partnership between Britain and China. This publication will help enormously in developing those partnerships.

Here is what I said:

Creative employment in the UK provides around two million jobs, in the creative sector itself and in creative roles in other industries. In recent times employment in the sector has grown at double the rate of the economy as a whole.
Something very important for the creative industries is also happening in China.
In business the emphasis is now on creativity. This is very much reflected in the 12th five-year plan that is underway and marks an important new approach where creative and artistic skills are being highly valued.
At the same time I have seen a great interest in China in creating partnerships with British creative industries and creators, particularly in games and new media, publishing, architecture, design, fashion, animation, music, film, radio, television and advertising, especially after the spectacle of the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies and the success of the British pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
We now have great opportunity for creative and artistic partnership between China and the UK. There is a real role for collaboration between us in helping developing creative industries clusters in China.
These reports will be invaluable in helping British creative industries develop a strong understanding of where they can develop partnerships in China, and I very much welcome Prof. Patricia Ann Walker and colleagues’ initiative in putting such a comprehensive publication together.

 

by Tim Clement-Jones