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“[UK Prime Minister Andy] Burnham’s AI head secretly briefed tech giants at No 10 adviser’s investment firm” by Ethan Stone in OpenDemocracy.net @uk_politics @UKLabour@mastodon.cloud @medialens@bird.makeup “The chair of Andy Burnham’s new AI Taskforce gave a secret private briefing to the Big Tech clients of an advisory firm linked to No 10’s top business adviser [..]. Ollie Ilott was the speaker at a breakfast roundtable hosted by Hakluyt & Company in April last year, when he was head of the UK’s AI Security Institute [..]. The government failed to declare that the meeting took place and says it holds no records from it whatsoever, leaving the public with no way of knowing what attendees – including tech giants Microsoft and the Ellison Institute of Technology – were told about AI policy” https://www.opendemocracy.net/burnhams-ai-head-secretly-briefed-tech-giants-at-no-10-advisers-investment-firm/?ref=weekly-newsletter #Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Britain #Burnham #Labour #AI #AITaskforce #Meeting #Secret #Hakluyt #Ilot #Ellison #Microsoft #Policy #MI6 #RevolvingDoor #CivilService #Elite #Access