Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:27 pm on 13 June 2023.
Jack Sargeant
Labour
2:27,
13 June 2023
I'm grateful to the First Minister for his answer, and can I put on record my support for his comments he’s made there? That is to say, as an engineer, First Minister, I have been surprised for some time, actually, about how little AI has been talked about in policy circles. I think it was around three years ago now when I wrote about the need to manage automation very carefully if we weren’t to see the same sort of impact that we saw with deindustrialisation in the 1980s.
Now, we’ve heard already from Altaf Hussain in the Chamber the opportunities that AI has in front of us, and we must embrace those opportunities, because AI is happening. What’s important, First Minister, is we get our response right. That is to say that, globally, we have been playing regulatory catch-up ever since social media emerged, and AI is about to significantly provide a bigger change. We must work together to regulate right and to ensure a just transition protects working people. First Minister, will you take that message directly to the UK Government, and will you also outline how, in Wales, we work through our social partnership approach to ensure a just transition?
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