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The UK government has published an update on the progress of its Science and Technology Framework.  Originally published in March 2023, the update details what the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) has achieved in the first year of the Framework’s existence.

In the name of stimulating economic growth through the government’s plan to become a “science and technology superpower,” it has funded projects that bring us ever nearer to a dystopian and technologically controlled society.


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On 9 February, DSIT published an ‘update on progress’ report for the UK Science and Technology Framework (“UKSTF”).  The UKSTF is the government’s plan to cement the UK’s place as a science and technology superpower by 2030.

According to Dame Angela McLean, Government Chief Scientific Adviser, and Dr. Dave Smith, National Technology Adviser, the UKSTF is the principal vehicle helping the whole of government deliver its strategic intent of becoming a “science and technology superpower.”

“Moving at warp speed,” in March 2023 Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for DSIT, launched the UKSTF.  “Led by DSIT, with collaborative delivery across government, we have already made substantial gains,” she said in the update report. 

 “Public spending on R&D is at the highest ever level, and we are fulfilling our commitment to spend £20 billion across the next financial year with every £1 of public expenditure leveraging double the amount of private investment,” Donelan added.

The UKSTF has projects with large budgets such as the “£1.5 billion for compute infrastructure across the exascale and AI Research Resource (AIRR) programmes since the publication of the independent Future of Compute Review in March 2023.”

Compute is advanced computing capabilities – the large-scale processing power, memory and data storage that is used to tackle tasks beyond the capabilities of everyday computers. The Future of Compute Review explores the UK’s compute needs over the next decade and provides recommendations to spur growth and secure the UK’s status as a science and technology superpower.

However, some of its projects require less money and are also of concern. The introduction to the ‘update on progress’ report stated:

The UKSTF update on progress report highlights innovation, investment and growth in life sciences – one of the UK’s strongest sectors.  In July 2021 the government published the Life Sciences Vision. Although this Vision was in the making beforehand, according to Quanta, the 2020 covid pandemic gave it a push and played a huge role in shaping the key components.

“The Vision aligns with and complements the Science and Technology Framework’s systems approach,” DSIT stated.

Also in the introduction is a section titled ‘Earth Observation Investment Package (EOIP) – boosting the UK’s space sector’. 

You might be wondering how this benefits UK citizens.  It doesn’t.  Essentially, it benefits climate alarmist technocrats.  Basically, EOIP is funding projects that provide solutions to so-called “global challenges” relating to agriculture and climate.

EOIP has funded the UK EO Climate Information Service (“EOCIS”), which provides vital data for decision-makers. For example, Assimila, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (“UKHSA”) and Leicester University, is using EOCIS data to study the health impacts of temperature extremes.

Additionally, EOIP has funded the EO4Agroclimate programme, which combines UK expertise in EO technology with Australian knowledge to address “global challenges” in agriculture and climate.

EOIP has also safeguarded critical national EO services and datasets, such as the Met Office-led Marine and Climate Advisory service, which supports search and rescue efforts and marine pollution responses.

EOIP has also provided funding to develop satellite technology and support the next generation of EO experts. Innovate UK funded 14 companies, including Agribot, which uses grassland modelling to help farmers enhance pasture health and productivity.

So, we have life sciences (technologies and treatments) and earth observation (climate), could the UKSTF be pushing any of the other Globalist agendas?  Yes.

DSIT works in collaboration with intelligence services, not least of all to tackle disinformation.  The UKSTF also covers digital identities.

Before 2020, many of us may have been trusting enough of our government and intelligence community to see the tackling of disinformation as beneficial for the nation.  But as many of us have experienced or witnessed how governments and intelligence communities have turned on their own citizens in recent years to tackle “disinformation,” we cannot assume the UKSTF’s DSIT/intelligence community collaboration is for our benefit.

The update on progress report stated:

All of the above is taken from the forewords and the introduction to the 68-page ‘update on progress’ report.  Also included in the introduction, is a month-by-month list of what action UKSTF has taken from its inception to January 2024. You can find the 19-page UKSTF published on 6 March 2023 HERE.

Below, we briefly describe the updates on the first of the 10 UKSTF action points, or what the update on progress report refers to as “strands.”

Developing and Deploying Critical Technologies

The UKSTF has ten strands which can be seen listed on the left-hand side menu of the ‘update on progress (9 February 2024)’ webpage.  The first strand is ‘Developing and deploying critical technologies’.

DSIT has identified five critical technologies: AI, engineering biology, future telecommunications, semiconductors and quantum technologies. 

For AI, DSIT has announced £1.5 billion of investment in compute in the past year.  Over the next 10 years, DSIT has committed: £2.5 billion for quantum technologies and announced 5 Quantum Missions to realise the ambitions of its National Quantum Strategy; up to £1 billion on semiconductors; and £2 billion for engineering biology.

Initially, up to £100 million was committed on future telecommunications by the end of financial year 2024/25 and DSIT is committed to supporting future telecommunications research and development in the long term.

The use of behavioural sciences has not been overlooked by DSIT.  Its update states:  “We are also drawing on the UK’s world-class capabilities in the social and behavioural sciences, as well as the humanities, to help shape how critical technologies are developed and deployed, strengthen public engagement and protection, and improve our ability to foresee unintended consequences.”

Artificial Intelligence

DSIT have convened the world’s first AI Safety Summit which was held at Bletchley Park in November 2023. This set a global agenda and built consensus on the opportunities and risks of AI, as well as the need for collaborative action on frontier AI safety, codified in the landmark Bletchley Declaration on AI Safety. (Note: The Declaration also prioritises the UN Sustainable Development Goals.)

The UK government has launched the world’s first AI Safety Institute and has invested £80 million in AI hubs, bringing together multidisciplinary teams from academia, industry, and other stakeholders. These hubs focus on areas such as scientific research, real-world data, and the development of new AI technologies.

Significant investments have been made in compute infrastructure, amounting to over £1.5 billion, to drive innovation and support AI research initiatives. The government has also established a Central AI Risk Function to identify and assess AI-related risks.

To foster responsible and trustworthy AI, the government has invested £110 million in the UKRI Technology Missions Fund. They are also providing funding for scholarships to enhance diversity in data science and AI fields.

Other initiatives launched by the UK government include the Responsible AI UK consortium, the Bridging Responsible AI Divides programme, and the Manchester Prize for innovative AI solutions. They have also introduced the AI Skills for Business Competency Framework and the Generative AI Framework for government use.

During the next 12 months, among others, the government will encourage AI adoption and will launch the pilot AI and Digital Hub with the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum in March 2024.

Engineering Biology

Engineering biology is the design, scaling and commercialisation of biology-derived products and services that can “transform sectors or produce existing products more sustainably.” It draws on the tools of synthetic biology to create the next wave of innovation in the “bioeconomy” and “represents an opportunity to drive advances across health, agriculture, chemicals, materials and energy.”

The UK government has taken several steps to promote and invest in the field of engineering biology some of which are mentioned below.

The National Vision for Engineering Biology was published in December 2023, with a commitment to invest £2 billion over the next ten years. (Note: It lays out the government’s strategy for turning the potential of cellular agriculture, new genomic techniques, medicinal advancements and sustainable fuel production into concrete benefits to the economy and people’s quality of life, supposedly.)

The government has outlined their approach in the Vision, focusing on six key themes:  world-leading research and development, infrastructure, talent and skills, regulation and standards, engineering biology in the economy and responsible and trustworthy innovation.

They have also provided funding of £100 million for engineering biology missions, hubs, and awards, and hosted a showcase of UK companies in this field. Additionally, they have held roundtables with industry and academics and created a network for regulators called the Engineering Biology Regulators Network.

The UK Biological Security Strategy has been renewed and the Biosecurity Leadership Council established. Early priorities for responsible innovation have been identified.  These include gene synthesis screening, convergence of engineering biology and emerging technologies (for example AI, automation and cyberbiosecurity), the culture of safe innovation, biodata security and horizon scanning.

In the coming months, the new Engineering Biology Steering Group will be established to support delivery of the National Vision for Engineering Biology.

Future Telecommunications

“Future generations of telecommunications technologies will underpin virtually every aspect of our digital society, public services, and economy and enable other critical technologies, including AI and quantum,” DSIT stated.

Throughout 2023, DSIT continued its mission to roll out digital infrastructure across the UK.  Core to this mission is Project Gigabit – the government’s £5 billion programme to bring lightning-fast, reliable broadband to hard-to-reach communities across the UK. Over 20 contracts were awarded to deploy gigabit-capable broadband which represents £2 billion of investment.

In April 2023, the UK government published a Wireless Infrastructure Strategy to provide nationwide 5G connectivity by 2030. The Strategy also includes the UK’s vision for 6G telecommunications.  DSIT has ensured that international agreements, such as the Global 6G Framework and the future allocation of spectrum agreed at the World Radio Conference 2023, are aligned with the UK’s 6G vision.  In addition, the UKRI Future Telecoms Technology Missions Fund was launched in October 2023 to support early-stage research and shape the standards for 6G technologies.

The government has also announced a grant funding programme, up to £160 million, to support UK-based companies in pursuing significant commercial opportunities in the satellite communications market.  Trials have been launched to explore broadband provision in hard-to-reach areas using Low Earth Orbit satellites.

Furthermore, they have granted funding to 19 consortia from the Open Networks R&D fund for the development of open interface telecommunications architectures and funded the creation of the UK Telecoms Innovation Network to foster collaboration and innovation in the telecommunications industry.

Lastly, the UK has formed the Global Coalition on Telecommunications – with representatives from the UK, US, Australia, Canada, and Japan – to facilitate cooperation on future telecommunications issues.

Semiconductors

Semiconductors are the core component of all electronic devices. They are also essential to advancing other technologies, including AI and quantum technologies.

The UK government has announced its National Semiconductor Strategy, with plans to invest up to £200 million between 2023 and 2025, and up to £1 billion in the next decade.

They have also launched the Semiconductor Advisory Panel to help shape and implement the strategy.

The government has also formed partnership agreements with the US, Japan, and South Korea to foster collaboration and strengthen supply chains.  Furthermore, the UK has led its first semiconductor business delegation to Taiwan and conducted a study to improve infrastructure access for startups.

DSIT has also funded the Digital Security by Design programme to enhance digital technology and infrastructure.

Over the coming months, the government will “deliver more international partnerships and deepen our collaboration with existing international partners, including multilaterally through the G7 and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).”

Quantum Technologies

The UK has been an early leader in quantum technologies, with the £1 billion National Quantum Technologies Programme running since 2014.

“Today, we have quantum computer applications which promise to develop new products and medicines; quantum-enhanced imaging devices for more accurate and speedier diagnosis of tumours; more sensitive quantum sensors for scanning brains and detecting underground infrastructure, and quantum communication networks which enable faster and more efficient transfers of information,” DSIT states.

The UK has published a National Quantum Strategy, to become a global leader in quantum-enabled technology. The strategy includes an investment of £2.5 billion over 10 years, with an additional £1 billion of private investment.

Five Quantum Missions have been announced, focusing on healthcare, computing, sensing, timing and communications.

The UK is also investing £70 million to develop quantum computing and positioning technologies, including procuring testbeds for the National Quantum Computing Centre to provide quantum computing infrastructure to UK businesses. Additionally, there are plans to accelerate the development of quantum network technologies and launch a Quantum Catalyst Fund to promote the adoption of quantum technologies in the public sector.

Collaboration agreements have been signed with Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands, and new research projects are set to begin through the QuantERA programme, connecting UK academics with researchers in 10 other countries.

A Quantum Skills Taskforce has been established to address the sector’s skills needs and a UK Quantum Standards Network Pilot has been launched.

The UK also hosted a National Quantum Technology Showcase, inviting 27 companies and organisations from 8 countries to invest in the UK’s quantum sector.

Too Much Technology is Not a Good Thing

When the Framework was published, it was welcomed by the technology sector. TechUK was pleased that the government was recognising the “significant value the tech sector brings to the UK economy and society.”

Is the technology sector adding value to society?

The technologies chosen by DSIT in its UKSTF are also techUk’s key business areas.  As such “techUK will be working very closely with DSIT going forward to help fulfil the missions set out in the Framework.”

So, what are techUK’s business and views on the key technologies identified?  You can find out more by following the links at the end of their article HERE and browsing the webpages.  It’s not cheery reading.  One of their webpages sums it up:

“How we plan for success”? Who’s success? This is profit over people and proves why the private sector should not be allowed to influence public policy decision-making – they are pursuing profits and have no regard for people’s inalienable rights and freedoms, or our lives and livelihoods..

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hash
hash
2 months ago

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There’s no such thing as AI. It’s just replacing a thinking human with a computer. A computer is only capable of processing data. It is not “intelligent” in any way. They’re “blinding you with science” (or rather, with big and clever words) yet again. A human might look at a sick person and say “this person can be saved if we try this or that”. A computer will be given a database containing the number of people with diseases X, Y and Z and will output a table telling the accountants how much money it would cost to save those with X, those with Y, and those with Z. The accountant will then decide whether to treat each group or not (depending on whether he wants to buy a new car or not).

There’s no such thing as quantum computing. A “quantum computer” is a computer which, when given all possible inputs at the same time, will instantly output the “answer”. Notice the difference between this and brute forcing by simply trying all the inputs one after another until you find the “answer”. For example, a “quantum computer” would break all encryption because you could input all the possible combinations of all the possible passwords all at the same time and it would instantly output the specific password to decrypt whatever it was that was encrypted. This is nonsense. Always has been and always will be. Computers simply do not work that way. But it sure attracts a lot of your tax money to “research” it.

hash
hash
Reply to  hash
2 months ago

What the regime wants to do is this: create a facade that convinces all the other regimes around the world that have drones that are incapable of creating computer systems that if they, the other regime, were to pay £10bn a year to the british regime, they will get a set of computers that will enable them to enslave their drones just as you are being enslaved by the british regime. Think of it as selling the foreign regime a bigger and better gun. The foreign regime has no more understanding of what they’re buying than your regime has of what it’s selling. Your universities are stuffed full of people pushing this stiuff because they make money from doing it. Your country is stuffed full of companies that push this stuff because they make money from doing it. All that matters is the money. Your regime will pocket all the money.

Mark Deacon
Mark Deacon
Reply to  hash
2 months ago

It is removing the conscientious human input where as an example I were to torture somebody and got squeamish I may stop. The AI will just keep going as programmed with no concious.

That is the reality when AI decisions replace human ones.

nano
nano
Reply to  Mark Deacon
2 months ago

Show me an “AI” that can torture someone. The problem is that you all think “AI” exists. It doesn’t, not in the slightest. The closest you could get to what you described would be some kind of robotic arm as used to paint car doors in a factory, which is simply a computer program hooked up to a camera and a spray gun. I could just as easily build a torture machine out of wood and an electric motor, but you wouldn’t call that “AI” unless I sellotaped a CPU to the outside. Get it into your head: there’s no such thing as “AI”.

All computers work the same way. Data in, processor processes the data, data out. Every single thing a computer does can be done on a piece of paper with a pencil. And the computer can do no more than the pen and pencil. Try creating your “AI” torture machine with a pen and pencil.

If you look around you’ll see that everyone that writes about “AI” and “quantum computers” never explains what they mean by those words. Why? Because they haven’t the faintest idea what they’re talking about. They’re just spouting out BS to attract attention and money. A couple of years ago it was “nanomachines”, now it’s “AI”. Next stop “transporter pads” and “space elevators”.

Islander
Islander
Reply to  nano
2 months ago

Correct-AI doesn’t exist, unless of course you believe the lie!
You only have to look up the definition of artificial in any good dictionary, and what is its primary definition? IMITATION-SHAM!

Miguel
Miguel
Reply to  Islander
2 months ago

The fact is that software can be used to generate or sample decision making processes just as easy as it can generate pictures and music. The notion that there’s “intelligence” baked into that kind of software that somehow supersedes human intelligence is very much promoted. It will however be difficult to attribute emotional characteristics to such a system and especially the two combined which is necessary to suggest “AI” can apply ethics. That “AI” can not and will not do. Therefore “AI” can only be accepted as superior if humanity is severly dumbed down and denied an emotional life hence the attack on language and the definition of words by those who are in the illusion their machines will somehow demonstrate human behaviour. It all depends on the definition of intelligence which is a much broader term than gatering and processing information.

SilencedAbi4
SilencedAbi4
Reply to  hash
2 months ago

Absolutely true.
Computers capable only what was programmed. There is no such thing as an intelligent AI, absolute SCAM AND CONNING YOU AGAIN.
AI is a huge diversion. AI does what was programmed, if it is harmful than it is called computer virus.

I guess many would fell for it, the same who wore a mask for ME – please idiot spare me, the same who got the poison vax, the same who still being superior – while being a lazy, undereducated good for nothing but Hey, I want to be Hero.

Enjoy dying and stay, stay very far away people who were not lazy and literally was and is targeted, but our ENEMEY WAS WEAK, YOU LAZY IDIOTS WERE THE FOOT SOLDIERS of them. Thank you.

Petra
Petra
2 months ago

Fact: if you want successful Science and Technology you need people from European (including Russia) descendance or from east Asian descendance.

With people descendant from Africa, middle-east or e.g. Porkistan you can just forget it.

It won’t work. Their IQ and/or Culture does not meet the requirements that
Science and Technology demands.

It’s not what most want to hear these days, but that doesn’t make it untrue.

Stuart-james.
Stuart-james.
2 months ago

It’s just another tax scam and ‘they’ have nothing to offer. Any so-called AI system is subject to the program and those that control it … So, in programming that is known as crap in … crap out!

Mary Ann Dowrick
Mary Ann Dowrick
2 months ago

😂😂😂hard to believe the UK could be at the head of anything. Living here now for 26 years, I am witnessing the demise of a country. For goodness sake, the local greggs cannot even supply sandwiches at noontime because the one person trained to make sandwiches called in sick. The work ethic of the typical Brit is pretty frightening, as in none. But I know all the retirees are going to find our warp speed technology of great use, so will all the unemployed sitting at home playing computer games. Yes, the UK doing all the wrong things, while Rome burns.

hal
hal
Reply to  Mary Ann Dowrick
2 months ago

I’d like to sit in on the training session for making sandwiches. I wonder how that’s done.

I’m, much to my disgust, “british”, and the reason I don’t want to work is not because I’m lazy, but because I don’t see the point of being a slave for a facist who’ll become rich while I remain poor. Nor do I want to pay for immigrants and their children to have a free ride. I’ll do just enough to survive but no more. It’s like funding your own execution.

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karakorum
karakorum
2 months ago

The Games of the Future, which began 2 days ago in Kazan.

Putin addressed the participants of this mass participation event:

“…I am glad to welcome to Russia the pioneers of phygital sports which is an innovative format that gave rise to the name to the competition. These are indeed the Games of the Future. The blending of tradition and the modern age, the harmonising of physical fitness and high intellect, the integration of sports and technology, education and science – a person needs all that for well-rounded development and success in our era of rapid change, and the multifaceted, multipolar, free and competitive world that is taking shape before our eyes. It makes perfect sense that the idea to merge conventional and e-sports was born in Russia.

The Games of the Future are our gift to the international sports family.”

http ://en .kremlin.ru/events/president/news/73520

Lukashenko attended the opening ceremony:

“Forward into the future, friends!” Aleksandr Lukashenko spoke in Belarusian. He was the first one to take the floor.”

https :// president .gov.by/en/events/poseshchenie-ceremonii-otkrytiya-igr-budushchego-v-kazani-1708679218

More:

“it is crucial today to strike a balance between the digital and physical. The principle of ‘phygital’ helps with that. It is not just about sports competitions but a new philosophy of life and personal development. …[The Games of the Future] once again demonstrate that a modern person, a person of the future, is a harmonious individual, fit both physically and intellectually. …harmonizing intellectual and physical perfection is one of the absolute priorities of the emerging multipolar world”

So, in case you didn’t understand, digital and intellectual are the same thing.
More in the link:

“National Cyberphysical Platform “Den” [Berloga] “an attempt for the first time in the world to combine the physical and virtual world in the individual logic of a child’s development.”

And the reason for all this work is at the bottom of the comment.

“The next technological revolution will be associated with neurotechnologies and a radical increase in the productivity of mental labor due to the integration of the human brain and computing machines.. The Neuronet Roadmap..Stages and terms of implementation, Second stage (2019-2025).. “Neuro-entertainment and sports”.. “The product of 2035 will be a large-scale gaming platform that constantly interacts with the user. The platform will continuously monitor functional, psycho-emotional states, assess the cognitive background of the user’s current activity. Based on the data obtained, non-invasive stimulation of users will be carried out to achieve the necessary conditions.”

Opening Ceremony:

karakorum
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2 months ago

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karakorum
karakorum
2 months ago

Hey, but I forgot, and I didn’t notice at all, that today is a holiday date: two years from the start of the Great Reset sequel with the special operational fake war.

The two Vlads must have gotten together to have a drink on vodka. The old Joe and Klaus may be there, unkle Donald The Father of the Vaccine, Xi, Ursula, prince Charlie etc. They must be having a good time. Perhaps, on big screens, they recall the best lies from the related mega operation mainstream+alternative media.

They then read radically different misguided reactions to the same fake news: those of norms reacting to mainstream media fake coverage and those of anti-establishment people reacting to alt-media fake coverage. I’m sure it’s a big party.

White Het Donnie has made everyone laugh to tears with his “I believe in your freedom 100%…but take the vaccine”, Zelensky played piano with a cocaine di*ck, and Sleepy Joe forgot his speech and only asked “Where are the kids?”. Putin sang Blueberry Hill again while Klaus in his dress to the song. Everyone present burst with laughter.

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2 months ago

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2 months ago

No chance unless we cure deception and liars. science will not advance until we do. and too many so called scientists have adapted changing data to support what they are told is needed in politics.

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No need to wonder at the reason The Crown Corporation and The City of London were and remain HELL BENT upon LAUNDERING/STEALING U.S. TAXPAYER $$$ and the reason the Fabians were SO upset with the U.S Constitution and Revolution REMOVING ACCESS TO THE U.S.’s RESOURCES.

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