The AIs to the right
Spare a thought for the Conservative Party, which is rapidly haemorrhaging top talent. A report in the Guardian last week found the so-called natural party of government is set to lose nearly 1,000 years of Commons expertise after 66 experienced MPs announced plans to step down at the next election.
Mercifully there are still quite a few brain cells among Tory hereditary peers in the Lords, to whom the parliamentary party may have to turn for spiritual and intellectual guidance after a possible electoral wipe-out in the Commons.
Spy hears on the grapevine that Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a Freeman of the City of London, has just been commissioned by publishing giant Springer to edit a book on artificial intelligence policy, which it is hoped will become the go-to textbook on the technology in colleges and universities.
Spy looks forward to getting his hands on the book and is sure it will prove a more informative read than Liz Truss’s Ten Years to Save the West, which is about artificial intelligence of a different kind.
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