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HANSARDLarge Language Models and Generative AI (Communications and Digital Committee Report)My Lords, it is a great honour to open a debate in your Lordships’ House but an even bigger one to chair one of its Select Committees. Indeed, it is a pleasure to work with…21 Nov 2024HANSARDLarge Language Models and Generative AI (Communications and Digital Committee Report)That this House takes note of the Report from the Communications and Digital Committee Large language models and generative AI (1st Report, Session 2023-24, HL Paper 54).21 Nov 2024HANSARDHouse of Lords ReformMy Lords, any debate about Lords reform should start with identifying the problem that we are trying to fix, and there is none more serious than the rapid decline of public trust…12 Nov 2024HANSARDGenerative AI: Intellectual Property RightsI am very grateful to the noble Lord. Copyright clearly affects a lot of different sectors, but given the value of real-time news to the AI platforms, particularly in the…11 Nov 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationMy Lords, I am somewhat concerned by the Minister’s reference to regulating the most powerful and general purpose models, because I fear that that is a pathway to closing down…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationTransparency.17 Oct 2024HANSARDSocial Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024I also urge the Prime Minister to drop his misplaced belief that he and his Government are somehow morally superior and are acting in a way which will restore public trust. On the…11 Sept 2024HANSARDSocial Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024My Lords, I commend my erstwhile noble friend the noble Baroness, Lady Altmann, on her powerful opening of this debate. I agree with the arguments she put forward, as well as…11 Sept 2024HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits Against Public ParticipationTo ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to introduce legislation to prevent ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’.24 Jul 2024HANSARDStrategic Lawsuits Against Public ParticipationFirst, I welcome the noble Lord to his new appointment. It is very important for us to understand that SLAPPs are related not just to economic crime. SLAPPs are illegitimate and…24 Jul 2024HANSARDKing’s Speech (4th Day)My Lords, I am very pleased to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Vallance, and welcome him to this House, and to congratulate his fellow Ministers on their new appointments to the…22 Jul 2024HANSARDMedia BillI am grateful to both the noble Lords, Lord Foster and Lord Bassam, for their support for this amendment. Before I withdraw it, I want to check on a couple of things that my noble…22 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillI am grateful to my noble friend. I withdraw my amendment.22 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillBefore my noble friend moves on, would it not be appropriate, none the less, for Ofcom, when it does its media ownership rules review, to just consider again whether there are any…22 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, I am pleased to move the final amendment to this Bill in Committee. Noble Lords will recall that we debated foreign government ownership of UK news at Second Reading,…22 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, I will just speak briefly, because I know that we want to get to Front-Bench spokesmen. A lot of detailed arguments have been advanced by those who have tabled…22 May 2024HANSARDMedia Bill22 May 2024HANSARDAI: Intellectual Property RightsMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for giving way. As I said in my letter last week to the Secretary of State on behalf of the Communications and Digital Select Committee,…09 May 2024HANSARDMedia BillMy Lords, if I may contribute briefly to this debate, I would not go as far as saying that I support the amendment tabled by the noble Viscount, Lord Colville, but I think it…08 May 2024HANSARDTelegraph Media Group Ltd: AcquisitionMy Lords, I will pick up on the theme of timescales. I am grateful to my noble friend for the answers he has given to the noble Lords, Lord Bassam and Lord McNally, because they…01 May 2024