The chair of the UK governments “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic , in a move senior MPs called a “clear conflict of interest”. Matt Clifford announced last week that he was taking a full time job working for the company behind the Claude chatbot, “leading its engagement” with governments outside the US – including the UK. But he retained his leadership at the UKs Advanced Research and...
