"How do we protect ourselves from being completely dependent on the US and China?... It's terrifying." Rory Stewart, who attended the King's AI summit in Scotland this week, says there is a risk if China and America "have the kill switch” for the developing technology. #Newsnight

Rory Stewart has decided he's an AI expert

Maybe by not having ai as a central part of our society

The same Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK who doesn't see any problem with one million British children being raped, murdered and taken as sex slaves by islamist invaders. Weaselly bastard

The Royal Family. Utterly mediocre people. What have they done? What are their skills? What have they achieved? The British media fawn over them and it's embarrassing.

Must be desperate inviting this bloke on.

Companies have legal patented codes which = a “kill switch”. For years unregulated A.I. algorithms/codes/self learning were allowed in all WTO negotiations. The last 15 yrs civil society groups/trade unions raised these concerns in trade agreements…this is governmental failure

@RoryStewartUK is a knobhead

as greenlands and denmark sign deal with usa problem in uk is no one likes trump but we can’t manage all our problems ourselves. so we want to hate trump but then he needs to help us out? we have to have a strategy, why, what do we need to do for the longer term?

@BritifyUK I want us to vote on Palantir 🗳️ Do we want a surveillance state or not Do we want a master database or not

It's a bit late to start worrying about that now isn't it? Having already sold the country's silver (and the cognitive data of it's citizens) to gamble on 'leading the world in AI'. Is anyone actually in charge, or is everyone making it up as they go?

@MattChorley Rory is a prat

Why is this Rory berk being given a platform by the BBC?

No-one needs AI

All lefties together slagging off Trump and anyone else not in Andy’s club Our 7.30 @BBCNewsnight is more intent than ever to not attempt any impartiality! Strange nobody mentioned the @reformparty_uk policy agreed with the future French government? @AllisonPearson

Was he right about anything, ever?

Given Thatcher basically handed the UK to the USA on a plate for us to pay rent to...? Then the Arabs took a slice... Then the Chinese... Then Brexit. We are global serfs and intermediaries. Leading in very little. Paying rent, rent, rent.

Humanoids

I know let's build a time machine to take us back to 1978?

We’re all dependent. The sooner we realise that, the sooner we can create a society, a world, where everyone contributes, where everyone is sustained. But to do that, in a world of nations and national peoples, we must have secure borders and support for the people in them.

Bit late for that…

China runs concentration camps and harvests organs from people on a grand scale. Comparing the US to China is ridiculous.