At least Kamala Harris managed to avoid the dreaded phrase that we should ‘harness AI’s ‘potential’.
But that was just about the only blessing in the Vice President’s impressively rubbish speech yesterday at the US embassy in London.
Artificial intelligence, it is generally agreed, is the most important issue facing humanity, yet all we had was 14 minutes of waffle from the Veep. Still, it was nice of her to turn up.
Joe Biden has put Harris in charge of artificial intelligence. You can read that one of two ways: either Biden thinks that Kamala Harris is perfectly suited to grappling with the gravest existential threat, or that he thinks this AI malarkey is all a bit airy, so that looks like a good one for giving Kamala something to do.
It was nice of her to turn up
Diplomats, journalists, philanthropists, a former prime minister and a Michelin-star chef were all escorted down to Nine Elms to see the consequences of Biden’s delegating, at the newish American embassy.
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