Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden has revealed what retains him up at night time, as he performs the duties of appearing PM in Rishi Sunak’s absence. The Prime Minister is at present holidaying in California, and whereas he’s away the MP for Hertsmere is in cost.

Speaking to The Times, Mr Dowden admitted the world was way more “unstable” than when he entered parliament in 2015 and pointed to the terrifying safety threats introduced by synthetic intelligence.

He stated: “You can see the approach that China is taking in the South China Sea. You can see the kind of aggression that you see from Iran and elsewhere. We continue to be in the nuclear-armed age.

“We continue to be in an age where there's rapid advances in technology with artificial intelligence. All of those things mean that we can't sit back passively. We have to up our game.”

In a chilling prediction, Mr Dowden believes AI will form the UK faster and extra considerably than the economic revolution 250 years in the past, and warned that the safety threats it poses are huge.

He defined how AI may be harnessed by a a lot wider vary of malign actors to boost their capabilities.

“We need to be careful not to overstate these things and do it on an evidential basis, but there is the risk there that has to be addressed,” he added.

And he stated the federal government had been taking the menace very severely.

The appearing Prime Minister was eager to notice conflicts between nation states are prone to be financial in addition to standard.

He defined: “We've moved from a situation 20 years ago where conflict between nation states was through conventional means to one in which the economic space has become much, much more contested.

“A large part of my job is driving efforts to make sure that we protect our national security in the economic space, whether that's looking at critical minerals, the things that underpin the green industrial revolution and looking at those supply chains.”

He stated AI takes masive quantities of knowledge from datasets and “enables you to get to a point where you can make a decision.”

And he sought to reassure these with considerations over the advancing expertise that ministers are by no means going to outsource synthetic intelligence within the making of selections.