Westminster Hall
8 July 2026
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Westminster Hall House of Commons
00:11 - 00:25
Speaker 2
I call Neil Duncan-Jordan to move the motion. Though it is a rather glorious day today, so if people would like to remove their jackets, please feel free to do so. Neil Duncan-Jordan.
00:25 - 02:44
Speaker 4
Thank you, Ms McVey, and it's a pleasure to serve with you in the chair today. Now, I think we'll all agree that AI is a transformational technology that has the potential to bring many benefits to our society. But in order to fully realize these, we will require the government to look at radical changes to taxation, to welfare, and our industrial strategy. Everyone in the UK needs to benefit from a managed AI transition that puts workers and human dignity at its heart. It must make the world fairer, not more unequal, and it should give UK citizens a meaningful say in decisions that will affect their lives.
Now, evidence from the new Connected Pro-Worker AI campaign organization reveals that the public is deeply suspicious about AI. Around six in ten people expect the gains to flow to wealthy investors and big corporations. Just 7% think they will be shared fairly across our society. And understandably, seven in ten workers are worried about the impact that AI will have on their jobs. Even the Foreign Secretary has recently said that AI poses a Hiroshima-style threat to humanity without global rules being put in place.
Now, in today's digital age, a cartel of technology giants, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, wield extraordinary influence over our lives online. These platforms have become so embedded in daily life that meaningful participation in society depends on using their services. Similarly, digital infrastructure that facilitates our work and public services is now an essential layer of the economy. But in turn, this gives oligarchs like Elon Musk enormous power to distort public discourse. We have effectively subcontracted our right to information to a handful of big tech gatekeepers.
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