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HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresAs my noble friend says, the charity sector has been incredibly important for medical research in the UK, ranging from large charities such as the Wellcome Trust through to…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresThe Medical Research Council is changing how it supports research across its units and centres following a review of its funding models. The new MRC centres of research excellence…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresThe noble Lord makes a very important point. In the transition to this new model, all the existing units will be able to apply to the new model and there will be transition…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresThe noble Lord knows that I know that unit extremely well. It is a very important unit globally and it was given an award of £30 million recently. The new model will allow for a…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresAs the noble Lord may be aware, I have been very clear about the need for supporting basic curiosity-driven, investigator-led research, and I will remain resolute in that…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresUniversities have been under pressure, as the noble Lord knows, for a number of reasons, including student fees, overseas student numbers and questions about the full economic…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresI will speak about these particular schemes first. These are seven years plus seven, with one review at the beginning and one review at six years. The whole idea is to reduce…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresThe noble Lord will be unsurprised that I am a strong supporter of R&D funding and know the importance of its links to economic growth. It is crucial that we look at the spread of…28 Oct 2024HANSARDSpecialised Research Units: ClosuresI am obviously unable to comment on the upcoming Budget, but I recognise the importance of military spending and of the DSTL within that. I will continue to be a strong advocate…28 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationYes—the question of intellectual property and transparency is important. We are consulting widely on this with the creative industries and with others. Indeed, in my own review,…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThat is an area that of course comes under several other parts of regulation already. It is also an area where there are massive changes in the way that these models perform. If…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThe noble Viscount makes an important point. This will be global; there is no question about it. Therefore, there needs to be some degree of interoperability between different…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThis is an area where there were something like 100 new start-ups in the last year alone. We have something like 4,000 small companies. It is an area where small companies are…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationWe are very minded of the opportunity of AI—the report by Matt Clifford on AI opportunities will be coming out shortly. We want to see this as a growth industry in this country…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationMy Lords, as set out in the King’s Speech, we will establish legislation to ensure the safe development of AI models by introducing targeted requirements on companies developing…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThank you. It is an important area, and one where we have huge opportunities for growth. There is definitely the need for regulators to become upskilled in the ability to look at…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThe reason we are establishing the prospect of an AI Act is to look at those models that are the ones that are at the biggest forefront in general use and carry with them specific…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationThis again is a very important area in which there are rapid technological advances. Watermarking to enable understanding of what is original and what is not, and indeed what…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationAs the noble Viscount points out, the EU regulation has gone in a somewhat different direction in taking a very broad approach and not a sector-specific approach. In contrast, the…17 Oct 2024HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationIn passing, I will just reference the first part: even Eric Schmidt, at the investment summit on Monday, made the point that some sort of guard-rails and some sort of certainty…17 Oct 2024