It’s no secret that UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has been on a tech offensive of late — with the self-confessed Silicon Valley acolyte recently launching the world’s first ever global AI safety summit and greenlighting the UK’s re-entry into the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme.
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