AI Panel: Sovereignty, Agents, and the Road Ahead

Speakers: Josh Mesout, Dr Rosemary Francis, David Sullivan, Luke Jimenez, and James Faure

AI is shifting from single assistants to autonomous agents, and the hard questions are taking centre stage. Josh Mesout of Civo is joined by Dr Rosemary Francis of CommonAI Compute, David Sullivan of Starling Bank, Luke Jimenez of LESSO AI, and James Faure of Clairo AI. They debate what happens when a model gets pulled, where the UK should invest, who's responsible when an agent misbehaves, and whether open source models are the answer to sovereignty.