Refusal to sign AI declaration was ‘based on what’s best for British people’

French President Emmanuel Macron addresses the audience in a closing speech at the Grand Palais during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris (Michel Euler/AP photo) - (AP)

The Government makes “decisions based on what’s best for the British people” a minister has said, after the UK refused to sign an international agreement on AI at a summit in Paris.

The UK joined the US in not signing a communique issued at the end of the two-day AI Action Summit, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron, about the future direction of the disruptive technology.