When the opportunity to speak at this conference was put to me, I jumped at it. Because I believe, with absolute conviction that AI has brought humanity to a new technological frontier: One with the power to transform how we live, how we work, how we govern.

We stand at the edge of something vast. Something that will shape the destiny of nations, the British people and the daily lives of every citizen on this planet.

As Foreign Secretary, technology was at the heart of my approach. I announced plans in January for an upgraded data science team to inform diplomatic work and liberate diplomats from their desks so they could spend more time immersed in their posts and announced a counter-hybrid taskforce so that diplomats could be ready for a new age of technologically driven subterfuge.

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