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Scotland could freeze datacentre projects in challenge to UK’s AI strategy

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Scottish government to consider SNP national council motion for moratorium on all new datacentresThe Scottish government is about to consider a sweeping moratorium on building new datacentres, putting a key plank of the UK’s AI strategy at risk.Last Sunday the Scottish National party (SNP)’s national council passed a motion to freeze all new datacentres in […]

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‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

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Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge developmentRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promiseWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?The promise was that a Scottish community would be transformed by massive investment and empowered

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What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?

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Lanarkshire datacentre run by renewables and creating thousands of jobs not achievable by 2030, Guardian investigation findsRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreThe Guardian has examined government plans to build Britain’s AI infrastructure for the future,

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Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise

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Exclusive: Government and developers privately acknowledged Lanarkshire datacentre site had power provision ‘issue’‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentreWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?A landmark AI development billed as delivering jobs and prosperity has misrepresented its plans to channel

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Scotland’s ‘green datacentres’ policy ignores emissions impact of AI, analysis shows

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Definition of green facilities made in 2022, before release of ChatGPT, says Action to Protect Rural ScotlandA Scottish government policy designed to encourage datacentres to build in Scotland could lead to a massive volume of carbon emissions being ignored, according to an analysis by a Scottish charity.“Green datacentres” are at the heart of Scotland’s ambitions

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ChatGPT and other AI bots made huge errors before Scottish election, study finds

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Exclusive: Electoral Commission calls for new controls, as Demos finds tools made up fake scandals, invented candidates or gave wrong dateUK politics live – latest updatesThe Electoral Commission has called for new legal controls over misinformation from AI chatbots, after a thinktank found they had made serious mistakes during the recent Scottish election.The thinktank Demos

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The Guardian view on facial recognition technology: mistaken identities are a political issue | Editorial

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Once again, digital tools are running ahead of regulators. Civil liberties must not be sacrificed to policing It is a familiar story. Extravagant claims are made on behalf of novel computerised tools. The public are told that this or that digital application or system is going to change the world for the better. Efficiencies will

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AI tools make potentially harmful errors in social work records, research says

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Transcription tools used by councils in England and Scotland reported to hallucinate and produce ‘gibberish’AI tools are making potentially harmful errors in social work records, from bogus warnings of suicidal ideation to simple “gibberish”, frontline workers have said.Keir Starmer last year championed what he called “incredible” time-saving social work transcription technology. But research across 17

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Tories call for block on Chinese super-embassy amid claims of hidden chamber near sensitive cables – UK politics live

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Shadow home office minister Alicia Kearns says unredacted plans show 208 secret rooms and approving plans would be ‘insanity’Q: Why are the Liberal Democrats still using X?Davey says he is not afraid to pick a fight with Elon Musk. He says Musk has interfered in British democracy “in the most outrageous way”. Musk has also

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Software tackling deepfakes to be piloted for Scottish and Welsh elections

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Electoral Commission says tools to detect AI-generated content could be in place before campaigns beginElection officials are working “at speed” with the Home Office on a pilot project to combat the use of deepfakes to target candidates standing in this year’s Scottish and Welsh elections.Officials at the Electoral Commission in Scotland said they and the

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