Beeban Kidron, the film director who is campaigning against government plans to overhaul copyright rules for AI companies, has become the latest high-profile figure to complain about the role being played by the prime minister’s AI tsar, Matt Clifford.
The government announced on Monday, however, that Clifford had sold all his shares in Faculty AI, the strategy company which has worked closely with the government on AI safety, the NHS and education.
Clifford, a technology investor who is advising Keir Starmer on his AI strategy, continues to hold shares in dozens of AI companies, attracting criticism from anti-corruption campaigners.
Ministers will on Tuesday close a consultation on whether they should make it easier for AI companies to train their algorithms on creative content such as films, songs and books – proposals which have sparked a backlash from cultural heavyweights such as Sir Elton John.
Director and peer decries government’s ‘shameful’ copyright rules policy and role of tech investor Matt Clifford.
