Tech & Science Daily spoke with Eleanor Shearer, a senior fellow at the think tank Common Wealth, ahead of the event.
We'll also discuss the technology and economic direction of Sir Keir Starmer's landslide victory.
Plus, today is Amazon Prime Day, and the online giant is trying to get us all excited with some apparently cheap deals.
But what's the reason behind this consumer boom? It's all to beat the summer sales slump.
Channel 4's Dispatches discovered that criminals were selling the devices to dodgy companies who then dismantled them for parts or unlocked them to resell.
Scotland Yard told the programme it was increasing patrols and encouraging victims of theft and robbery to report the crimes.
This episode also covers online testing for ADHD, increasing delays in NHS cancer treatment, celebrating a groundbreaking malaria shot and the discovery of a cave on the moon.
Here's the full automated transcript of today's episode:
Hello, I'm Mark Branden and this is The Standard's Tech & Science Daily.
Next up, we'll look at London's iPhone theft epidemic.
But first, there is just one day until the King's Speech at the Opening of Parliament, as the new Labour government sets out its legislative agenda with many technology aspects.
Our hope is that the AI Bill will focus on regulating the most powerful generative AI models.
So something like GPT-4, which is behind ChatGPT, is something that people might have actually tried out.
While the previous administration also placed a strong emphasis on the safety of these AI models, we expect this new law to be a bit more binding on tech companies.
These are the words of Eleanor Shearer, a senior fellow at the Commonwealth Think Tank.
The focus is on the model itself and what it can do.
How could it be compromised by a bad actor?
I think a bit about humanity and the negative impact it has on society, including the spread of misinformation.
But what's really missing are more structural questions, like how employers can use these technologies to exploit workers.
Also, the Trades Union Congress is doing some really interesting work on a kind of AI Bill of Rights for workers, which would be great to see adopted by the Government, but I don't think that's going to happen this time.
He then asked about legislative powers to rein in large multinational technology companies.
I think we need to seriously consider the lessons we can learn from social media.
So, while these are both techniques that certainly have benefits, they also have the potential to cause great harm.
And what we saw on social media 10, 20 years ago was a handful of companies saying, “Don't worry, we can regulate ourselves. We can provide this service essentially as a monopoly. There won't be any problems.”
I think we can all kind of say where it actually ended up.
So what I would really like to see is a different kind of economic climate.
I think we really need to think about how much power Big Tech has to force us to integrate AI to set our vision for the future. In fact, in a more fair and equal environment, we might say that we all co-create that future and that these are the areas where AI can really help and benefit us, but we don't want it to automate us and take away our jobs or cause us great social damage.
It also discusses the direction of the government of Sir Keir Starmer, who took over from Rishi Sunak's Conservative government.
Well, I guess we don't know that yet.
The previous administration also placed a strong emphasis on such an AI safety framework, and it is one that is actively promoted by the tech companies themselves.
These are very powerful systems, and it is to their advantage to threaten them with untold destruction, to get people to think about catastrophic future scenarios rather than the current situation of people who are being discriminated against or losing their jobs.
So what I would really like to see – and I'm not saying AI safety isn't important, it absolutely is – is to see Labour go further and the Conservatives start thinking about inequality, start thinking about job protections.
They've made new deals for workers, but how can we use that framework to think more about technology as well?
The King's Speech is also likely to include reviving cybersecurity legislation to protect Britain's infrastructure from foreign attacks.
It's Amazon Prime Day this week, and the online giant is once again trying to get us all excited with some seriously cheap deals.
But in a time when prices are rising anyway, can we really get such a good deal on products?
What is the reason for this consumer boom?
Well, it's all to break the summer sales slump.
According to a study by Corsite Research, these summer promotions help retailers encourage customers to buy products at a time when they are thinking about spending money instead of on vacations or dining out.
Now, as police across London struggle to identify the suspect, investigations have revealed a repeat offender is making £15,000 a month from stealing smartphones.
An investigation by Channel 4's Dispatch revealed that criminals are selling the devices to businesses who then strip them for components, unlock them and resell them.
The data was compiled by Crest Advisory, a consultancy that specialises in analysing police data.
One London crime victim told Dispatch that despite being told by police there were no leads, his mobile phone rang in Shenzhen, China, two weeks after the robbery, where he suspected the phone was being used for parts.
Scotland Yard told the programme it was increasing patrols and encouraging victims of theft and robbery to report the crimes.
Now, research by Cancer Research UK and the National Disease Registry Service has found a significant increase in the number of patients waiting for oncology treatment on the NHS.
According to NHS Targets, around 85% of patients should start their first treatment within 62 days of receiving an urgent GP referral for suspected cancer.
But experts found that the proportion of cancer patients in England who have to wait at least 104 days to start treatment after being referred with a suspected emergency has almost tripled in just five years.
The study found that the majority of delays were caused by provider-initiated delays, including equipment breakdowns, capacity issues and administrative delays.
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And what's more, could the lunar caves become a lunar base for astronauts?
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There is hope that a new malaria vaccine could save hundreds of thousands of lives this decade.
Sir Adrian Hill, head of the vaccine development team and professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he hoped the vaccine would pave the way towards serious disease eradication.
Hailed as a scientific breakthrough, the R21 Matrix-M vaccine is the first malaria vaccine to achieve the World Health Organization's target of 75% effectiveness in preventing malaria.
The first vaccines were distributed in Ivory Coast on Monday and were developed under the guidance of Sir Adrian at the university's Jenner Institute.
Now, research by Cancer Research UK and the National Disease Registry Service has found a significant increase in the number of patients waiting for oncology treatment on the NHS.
According to NHS targets, around 85% of patients should start their first treatment within 62 days of receiving an urgent referral from their GP with suspected cancer.
But experts found that the proportion of cancer patients in England waiting at least 104 days to start treatment after being referred with suspected urgency has almost tripled in just five years.
The study found that the majority of delays were caused by provider-initiated delays, including equipment breakdowns, capacity issues and administrative delays.
And finally, scientists from the University of Trento in Italy have discovered an underground lunar cavern extending tens of meters beneath an open-cut mine that could serve as a lunar base for future astronauts.
The researchers came to the discovery by examining radar data, and say it is the first known discovery of a lunar tunnel that is accessible to humans.
The hollow passage lies beneath a roughly 100-metre-wide hole in the Mare Tranquility, a dark area on the near side of the Moon visible to the naked eye.
Scientists have long suspected that a tunnel lurks beneath the Mare Tranquility Rift, along with 200 other holes on the Moon.
The groundbreaking discovery comes as NASA prepares to send the first manned mission to the moon in more than 50 years.
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