{"id":25498,"date":"2026-10-17T12:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-power-of-ai-is-worrying-senior-labour-figures-as-is-the-fear-of-falling-behind-the-public\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T10:37:20","slug":"the-power-of-ai-is-worrying-senior-labour-figures-as-is-the-fear-of-falling-behind-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-power-of-ai-is-worrying-senior-labour-figures-as-is-the-fear-of-falling-behind-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures \u2013 as is the fear of \u2018falling behind the public\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,\u201d said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare.<\/p>\n<p>It was Labour conference, with everyone from ministers to activists jubilant at Andy Burnham\u2019s takeover and a bounce in the polls after the change of leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/17\/artificial-intelligence-ai-labour-government-safety-uk-extremism\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e0d13c6ce0b90597a109492537328402905b91ca\/719_0_7202_5760\/master\/7202.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc2e49beb9729a79008890cd95940733\" title=\"The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures \u2013 as is the fear of \u2018falling behind the public\u2019\" \/>Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors<br \/>\n\u201cI have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,\u201d said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare.<br \/>\nIt was Labour conference, with everyone from ministers to activists jubilant at Andy Burnham\u2019s takeover and a bounce in the polls after the change of leader. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors \u201cI have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,\u201d said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare. It was Labour conference, with everyone &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/17\/the-power-of-ai-is-worrying-senior-labour-figures-as-is-the-fear-of-falling-behind-the-public\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The power of AI is worrying senior Labour figures \u2013 as is the fear of \u2018falling behind the public\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}