Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.UK technology secretary Peter Kyle has urged opponents of a new artificial intelligence copyright regime not to “resist change”, as he prepares to rule on proposals that have enraged British musicians and filmmakers.Thousands of people working in the British creative and media industries have protested against the UK’s proposed system that would require every company, artist or author to opt out of their work being incorporated into AI systems by tech companies. Promising the UK’s Labour government will “prioritise . . . forward movement”, Kyle stressed he did not want to set the country’s filmmakers and musicians against technology companies, but said they would “find a way through it”. “Just as in every other time there is change in society, there will be some people who will either resist change or try to make change too difficult to deliver,” Kyle told the Financial Times. “That’s why it is important we have a government that will prioritise the forward movement of our society, economy and government itself, so all are fit to seize the opportunities of the future.” Kyle said: “We have the third-largest AI market in the world and we have the second-largest creative arts sector in the world. I will not pit one against the other and I will not be made to choose between one or the other.”He added: “We will find a way through it and get both sectors facing the future and fit for the digital age, and fit for having the rights and protections and the ability to earn money in the digital age.”Speaking on the sidelines of US chipmaker Nvidia’s GTC conference in the heart of Silicon Valley last week, Kyle said the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology was weighing more than 11,000 responses to its consultation on the future of copyright and AI, and planned to legislate “in due course”. The copyright changes have become contentious among British media groups, with the co-chair of studio Working Title Films, Eric Fellner, calling them an “existential threat” to the country’s creative industries. In January, the government said it would push ahead with a 50-part “AI Opportunities Action Plan”, following recommendations from British venture capitalist Matt Clifford that include a radical increase in the UK’s “sovereign” computing power. Kyle said the UK had received more than 200 expressions of interest from local communities to become “AI growth zones”. The designation would streamline regulations such as planning permission to attract investment for new data centres to what he called “‘the relics of economic eras past”. One potential data centre site has close to 2 gigawatts of power available, Kyle said, which would be enough to support hundreds of thousands of the powerful Nvidia chips that tech companies rely upon to build and deploy cutting-edge AI systems. “Soon this could be home to the largest data centre in Europe,” he said in a speech at Nvidia’s event. “I want shovels in the ground this year.” Kyle would not reveal the location of the site, saying only that it was outside London. “The real importance of this is it shows the enthusiasm for AI — and the wealth that it generates, and its importance to our economy and society — is not just from me and the prime minister, it’s from communities up and down the country,” he said. Kyle has made multiple visits to the US since becoming tech secretary last year. A video posted to social media showed him riding around San Francisco in a Waymo self-driving car, alongside Lord Peter Mandelson, the British ambassador to the US, promising to “get these [autonomous vehicles] on the streets across Britain as quickly as possible”. “It’s important to come here and show we are a country doing big things again,” Kyle said. “We are not just tinkering at the edges.”
