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UK throws its hat into the AI fire
In 2023, the U.K. made a big song and dance about the need to consider the harms of AI, giving itself a leading role in the wider conversation around AI
Now, it’s whistling a very different tune: today, the government announced a sweeping plan and a big bet on AI investments to develop what it calls a “decade of national renewal.” A number of sizeable and trailblazing companies have been hatched and grown in the U.K. — DeepMind, the anchor of Google’s AI business, started here; chip giant ARM is British; and there are tens of thousands of startups and research groups doing groundbreaking work. If, for example, startup founder’s or VC’s leave the UK because they are taxed uncompetitively, or the NHS refuses to deploy AI technology because unions fear job losses,” he told TechCrunch.
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