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Servant or Master?

Governing AI for Malaysia's Future: Lessons from Westminster for an AI Nation

A fireside conversation with Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE, the parliamentarian who chaired the House of Lords inquiry into Artificial Intelligence. We ask how a nation can move fast on AI while keeping it accountable to its people, its creators and its values, and what Britain's hard lessons can offer Malaysia as it builds towards AI Nation 2030.

Saturday 14 November 2026 10:00 UK time · 18:00 Malaysia time Fully online · Free to attend

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In conversation

Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE

Former Chair, House of Lords Select Committee on AI · Co-Founder, APPG on AI · Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Science, Innovation and Technology

Our guest

Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE

Four decades in public life, one conviction: technology must answer to people, not the other way round.

The man who put AI before Parliament

In 2017 and 2018 Lord Clement-Jones chaired the House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence, whose landmark report AI in the UK: Ready, Willing and Able? set out five ethical principles for AI and shaped a decade of British policy. He is Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence, and today speaks for the Liberal Democrats on Science, Innovation and Technology in the Lords.

A global parliamentarian for AI

He is a co-founder of the OECD's Global Parliamentary Network on AI, bringing legislators from around the world together to share what works. For many years he was Deputy Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on China, and he chaired the China and Middle East desks of DLA Piper, giving him an unusually international view of how AI governance travels across cultures and markets.

Law, regulation and trust

A lawyer by training, he was London Managing Partner of the global firm DLA Piper and Head of UK Government Affairs, and now advises the firm on AI regulation and policy. He chaired Ombudsman Services, the independent dispute resolution body for communications and energy, a career spent asking one question: how do ordinary people get redress when powerful systems get it wrong?

Champion of the creative industries

As Chair of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society he is one of Britain's leading voices on AI and copyright, arguing for a duty of transparency so that writers, musicians and artists know when their work trains a model. He insists that creativity and technology are not rivals, and that the divide between them must be removed.

A steward of universities

From 2017 to 2025 he chaired the governing Council of Queen Mary University of London, a university home to many Malaysian students, after serving on the Council of University College London. He writes regularly on what a future ready graduate needs, and on using AI to widen life chances rather than narrow them.

Author, campaigner, public servant

Made CBE in 1988 and a life peer in 1998, he has served as Lords spokesperson on Health and on Culture, Media and Sport. He is President of Ambitious about Autism and the author of Living with the Algorithm: Servant or Master?, his case for AI that serves people. His motto: change starts with ideas and is achieved by actions.

Why this conversation, why Malaysia

Four acts on governing AI

Malaysia is writing its AI rulebook now. Few people alive have done more to write Britain's. This session connects the two, from Westminster committee rooms to Putrajaya policy desks.

Act One

First 20 minutes

Ready, willing and able?

Inside the Lords AI inquiry: what Britain got right, what it missed, and why Malaysia's National AI Office and AI Nation 2030 plan are a chance to learn from both.

Act Two

Middle 25 minutes

Sovereignty without isolation

Sovereign AI, public procurement and regulation that builds trust rather than slowing progress. How a middle power sets its own rules while staying open to the world.

Act Three

Following 20 minutes

Whose work trains the machine?

Copyright, transparency and the creative economy. What Malaysian writers, artists and researchers should demand as their language and culture become training data.

Act Four

Final stretch