Scottish minister warns on Westminster’s ‘hands-off’ approach to AI and requests urgent UK summit
Richard Lochhead compares technology to previous industrial revolutions and says government’s job is to minimise harms and spread opportunities
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology made up of 800 DCMS staffers and 935 from BEIS
Minister reveals that newly created department is still working on employee transfers
Cost of developing emergency alerts system pegged at £25m
Minister reveals up more than £4m spent on testing, security and other support contracts
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