The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster

The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster

Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in Senedd reignites debate over AI-enabled devices It was a flowing speech packed full of precise statistics – but Jason O’Connell, a Reform UK Senedd member, was not quite the gifted orator he had first appeared.

The periodic flashing in his spectacles seemed to give the game away as he spoke for five minutes in the Senedd chamber without a glance at his notes. “Cardiff reviewed 192 roads, following 933 requests, and only four routes have returned to 30 mph,” he said as he led the party’s charge to abolish 20 mph traffic zones.

“£38. 3 m wasted to implement this policy and up to £8. 9 bn in an act of economic self-harm.” Continue reading...

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