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PM outlines action plan for artificial intelligence

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The government has set out its plan to help deliver a decade of national renewal through the wider adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Today’s announcement (January 13, 2025) by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer supports all 50 recommendations from Matt Clifford’s AI Opportunities Action Plan.

To support the AI strategy, AI Growth Zones will be established to speed up planning proposals and build more AI infrastructure. The first of these will be in Culham, Oxfordshire

Public compute capacity will increase by twentyfold to give the UK the processing power needed to fully embrace AI, and to that end, work will start immediately on a new supercomputer

Also included in the plan is the establishment of a new team to build the UK’s sovereign capabilities, and a new National Data Library will be established to safely and securely unlock the value of public data and support AI development

The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology added that a dedicated AI Energy Council chaired by the science and energy secretaries will also be established, working with energy companies to understand the energy demands and challenges of AI.

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