Free AI from ‘clammy hands’ of Silicon Valley, urges Nick Clegg

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Meta president Nick Clegg says AI can't be kept in the 'clammy hands' of Big Tech

Artificial intelligence (AI) needs to be democratised so it does not just remain in the “clammy hands” of Big Tech companies based in California, the president of Meta has said. Former British Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said that a world in which technology is “kept in the clammy hands of a small number of very, very large and well-heeled companies in California” is “not going to stick”. He asked: “Can anyone conceive of a world in which AI t…