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HANSARDResearch, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape ReportYes, indeed. As I say, businesses fund about 60% of R&D in this country and conduct just over 70% of it. I certainly would keenly look into any ability to campaign to encourage…20 Nov 2023HANSARDResearch, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape ReportI thank the noble Lord for the suggestion. I will happily take that up with the Leader of the House and all the usual channels.20 Nov 2023HANSARDResearch, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape ReportYes, indeed: these are very important principles to allow research institutions, whether publicly or privately funded, autonomy in the research they undertake. As well as the…20 Nov 2023HANSARDResearch, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape ReportIf there any such evidence, I am afraid I am not familiar with it.20 Nov 2023HANSARDResearch, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape ReportThe science and technology framework sets out five priority areas for research and innovation and those areas are then pursued across a mix of public sector, private sector and…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Design Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023.20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I beg to move that these regulations be considered. They and the Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 were laid before the House on…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023My Lords, I very much thank the three noble Lords for their valuable and interesting contributions to this debate. As I said in opening, IP matters. The IP system exists to…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023Indeed. DSIT has been making representations to precisely that effect across government and that process is in train. I cannot provide a date for when it is going to be complete.20 Nov 2023HANSARDDesign Right, Artist’s Resale Right and Copyright (Amendment) Regulations 2023That is fair enough. What I am hearing is that noble Lords want to know not just when it will be but what it will look like when it happens. That is an entirely reasonable…20 Nov 2023HANSARDIntellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 2023That the Grand Committee do consider the Intellectual Property (Exhaustion of Rights) (Amendment) Regulations 202320 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationI think there are two things. First, we are extremely keen, and have set this out in the White Paper, that the regulation of AI in this country should be highly interoperable with…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationI thank the noble Baroness for her question and recognise her concern. In order to be sure that I answer the question properly, I undertake to write to her with a full description…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationIn the AI regulation White Paper we set out our first steps towards establishing a regulatory framework for AI. We are aligned with the United States in taking a proportionate,…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationI am pleased to tell my noble friend that, following a request from the Secretary of State, the safety policies of Amazon, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft,…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationYes, indeed. In healthcare in this country, we have what perhaps may well be the greatest dataset for healthcare analysis in the world. We want to make use of that for analysis…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationIndeed. Of course, one of the many issues with regulating AI is that it falls across so many different jurisdictions. It would be very difficult for any one country, including the…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationYes, indeed. It is a really important point that the development of AI as a set of technologies is going to oblige us to work across regulators in a variety of new ways to which…14 Nov 2023HANSARDKing’s SpeechMy Lords, on behalf of your Lordships’ House, I thank His Majesty the King for delivering the gracious Speech. I am grateful for the privilege of opening today’s debate on the…14 Nov 2023HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: RegulationI am pleased to reassure the noble Lord that I am not embarrassed in the slightest. Perhaps I can come back with a quotation from Yann LeCun, one of the three godfathers of AI,…14 Nov 2023