Sir Keir Starmer stressed the balance needed on artificial intelligence as his government consults on plans which could allow AI firms to scrape media companies' content, unless they specifically opt out. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00How are you going to balance the opportunities of AI that you talk about while addressing these fears?
00:06Well, there is a huge potential for AI, and obviously at the same time we've got to protect issues like copyright,
00:14so that's the balance we're trying to get right. We think we've got it in about the right place,
00:19but rather than just plough on with it, we're obviously doing a consultation,
00:22and we'll carefully consider the responses to that consultation.
00:26But the starting point isn't right. It's very much a starting point that's very heavily skewed towards the tech industry.
00:32You're proposing to take rights away and force creatives to opt back in to their own copyright.
00:39It's a bit like saying a burglar can nick all your stuff, and then that's all fine,
00:45as long as you've got a sign-up saying that that's not okay.
00:49Well, I don't see it like that. I think it's a question of how you get the balance right.
00:54There are some advocates of opt-in, some advocates of opt-out.
00:57We've put a proposal on the table, and we're consulting on it,
01:01and obviously when that consultation is over, we'll have a look at the responses that we've got.
01:06Okay, so yesterday the Minister for Creative Industries told the House that the government's proposals were untested anywhere in the world,
01:11and that we'll only progress them if there's a solution that meets all of the government's aims.
01:16So are you saying that once this consultation's over, if there's a solution that works for tech industries
01:22but not for the creative industries, you won't go ahead?
01:25No, we want to get the balance right, and there will always be disparate voices here.
01:31It's very unlikely we're going to get everybody saying the same thing and agreeing on the same proposition.
01:36We're at the cutting edge of AI. We're one of the leading countries in the world.
01:40We're in the top three. We're in a massively advantageous position, and we should take advantage of that, in my view.
01:46We need to get the balance right, but we'll go through the consultation.
01:50At the end of the consultation, will there still be different views? Of course there will be, and arguments as to where the balance should be.
01:57But we've put our proposal on the table. We're consulting about it, and we'll consider the responses.