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UK AI Taskforce head held secret briefing with tech giants

The head of UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham's AI Taskforce, Ollie Ilott, secretly briefed tech giants at a private roundtable hosted by Hakluyt & Company. This meeting, which occurred when Ilott led the UK's AI Security Institute, was not declared by the government, and no records of the event exist. Attendees included major tech firms like Microsoft and the Ellison Institute of Technology, raising concerns about transparency and potential influence on AI policy. AI

IMPACT Raises questions about transparency and potential conflicts of interest in UK AI policy development.

RANK_REASON Article reports on a potentially undisclosed meeting involving a government AI official and tech companies, raising transparency concerns.

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UK AI Taskforce head held secret briefing with tech giants

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