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This episode explores the impact of artificial intelligence on Westminster politics, featuring insights from various MPs and experts.

From ChatGPT-written speeches to constituents flooding MPs with AI-generated emails, artificial intelligence has arrived in Westminster. In this episode of Westminster Insider, host Patrick Baker explores how politicians and ministers are scrambling to respond, balancing fears about deepfakes, bias and online harms with a determination to harness AI for economic growth. The UK’s first AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says he believes that an artificial intelligence more capable than humans (so-called AGI) could arrive in five years' time, and explains how he is trying to balance the risks of AI with its economic potential. Labour MP Mike Reader, dubbed the “ChatG-MP” after being spotted using the model to respond to constituents on a train, describes how AI is changing the day-to-day work of politicians. Conservative MP Luke Evans reflects on delivering the first AI-generated speech in the House of Commons. Labour MP Dawn Butler, who served on Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee, sets out her concerns about AI perpetuating racial discrimination and why she believes it must be tightly controlled. POLITICO’s Tech Editor Isobel Hamilton traces the twists and turns of the…

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Baker

Guests: Kanishka Narayan, Mike Reader, Luke Evans, Dawn Butler, Andrea Miotti

Topics covered

• AI in politics
• Westminster
• economic growth
• deepfakes
• bias
• online harms

Keywords

• AI
• Westminster
• politics
• ChatGPT
• economic potential
• deepfakes
• bias
• online harms

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Organizations: Control AI, POLITICO

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