Peter Kyle agreed to include ‘more positive language’ in AI speech after Mandelson’s advice

Business Secretary Peter Kyle said he would “action” advice from Lord Mandelson to include “more positive language about AI” at the start of a speech at a major international security conference.

On 8 February 2025, Lord Mandelson told Kyle, who was then the government’s technology secretary, that his speech would “benefit from more positive language about AI up front before you get into the security stuff”.

Kyle replied: " That’s all v good advice which I’ll action. Thank you.”

Six days later Kyle gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he said “in the UK, we reject the doomsayers and the pessimists” about artificial intelligence.