For real: An AI candidate is on the ballot for UK election
USA TodayMAY 31 2024
The Spin
Tory narrative
While the topic of AI may be flying under the radar during the election campaign, the prime minister's belief in a looming technological revolution deserves greater attention. Sunak is well aware that AI is the remedy to the country's stagnant wage growth and productivity, and if the Conservatives want to remain in Downing Street they must focus less on Labour fear mongering and more on a vision of the UK at the very forefront of world-leading technology and innovation.
Labour narrative
With the UK's AI Summit exposing Sunak's subservience to the technology sector, Starmer and the Labour Party must take note and instead strike a fine balance between revolution and regulation. The UK must remain at the frontier of technology while placing much-needed focus on restricting the associated dangers of AI and providing a fair and safe environment for companies to compete and discover. Labour holds the potential over the next five years to transform society — they must do so with both optimism and caution.
Progressive narrative
Hype around AI has artificially inflated the strength of global markets through promises of increasing productivity by appropriating the knowledge of workers while removing them completely from the production cycle. AI is yet another example of the global elite attempting to repackage the same oppressive hierarchy, and like both the dot com bubble and the 2008 financial crisis it is destined to fail.