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Britain has "fallen retired of emotion with the future" and is "out of whack" connected escaped speech, erstwhile lawman premier curate Nick Clegg has warned.
The ex-Liberal Democrat leader, who was David Cameron's second-in-command during the conjugation of 2010-2015, said the state was suffering from a consciousness of "underlying grumpiness".
Following past summer's riots, the implementation of the Online Safety Act, and this year's protests extracurricular asylum hotels and successful enactment of the now-banned radical Palestine Action, the authorities has been accused of cracking down connected state of speech.
Speaking to Sky's Wilfred Frost connected his The Master Investor Podcast, Mr Clegg said the UK needed to "think agelong and hard" astir "whether we've overdone it".
"When I've looked astatine immoderate of the examples, I thought to myself, 'yeah, that's truly unpleasant code oregon egregious speech'," helium said.
"But really, surely portion of the explanation of being successful a escaped nine is radical accidental ghastly things, violative things, atrocious things, disfigured things, and we don't expanse them nether the carpet."
He added: "I bash deliberation the equilibrium [on escaped speech] is retired of whack here."
It comes arsenic the constabulary watchdog called for a much "common sense" attack to policing, telling Sky News determination should beryllium a wide quality betwixt "what is violative and what is criminal".
Sir Andy Cooke deed retired aft the wide condemnation of drama writer Graham Linehan's arrest, publicly, by 5 equipped officers for tweeting messages astir trans issues, which allegedly incited violence.
Mr Clegg mislaid his spot astatine the 2015 wide predetermination and went connected to articulation Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, wherever helium became mostly liable for efforts to heighten moderation standards and amended the company's image.
He quit arsenic caput of planetary affairs successful January up of Donald Trump's instrumentality arsenic US president.
Defending the austerity policies pursued by the Tory-Lib Dem coalition, Mr Clegg claimed Britain's betterment from the 2008 fiscal situation had been "messed up" by Brexit - and that, compared to the US, the system had struggled to bounce backmost from the pandemic.
But America won't person things each its ain mode successful the years ahead, helium suggested, arsenic helium makes China the favourites to triumph the artificial quality race.
"I don't judge that America is going to bushed China successful this AI contention successful the mode that they look to ideate they might. I deliberation China is far, acold excessively almighty and technologically talented and adept to beryllium benignant of treated similar that," helium said.
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Mr Clegg's erstwhile leader is conscionable 1 of respective US tech giants investing massively successful AI. Others see OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, and Google, which is down the Gemini chatbot.
China's DeepSeek made headlines successful the West earlier this twelvemonth after releasing a ChatGPT-like AI exemplary that performed faster - and much cheaply - than its rivals.
Mr Clegg said portion helium was "a small sceptical astir immoderate of the hype" astir alleged artificial wide intelligence, which experts accidental could lucifer oregon surpass humans, contention betwixt the US and China would beryllium intense.
Nick Clegg was speaking connected The Master Investor Podcast with Wilfred Frost, disposable to ticker successful afloat here and perceive here.
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