UK DSIT and UK Treasury launched the Artificial intelligence (AI) opportunities action plan, commissioned to identify how AI can drive economic growth plus deliver better outcomes for people across the country, and published its terms of reference.
Summary
Tech entrepreneur and Advanced Research And Invention Agency (ARIA) chair Matt Clifford will lead on delivering the plan, which will explore untapped AI opportunities to accelerate usage and improve lives through better services better and new products.
Plan to examine boosting AI take up across economy, while considering infrastructure, skills/talent, data access to drive public/private sector adoption, consider key enablers such as UK compute/wider requirements by 2030, plus start-up & scale-up availability.
An AI opportunities unit will be created to pool expertise & implement the action plan.
Next Steps
Matt Clifford will engage industry, academia, government, regulators and civil society to develop the plan, and deliver a set of recommendations to UK DSIT in Sep. 2024.
In Jan. 2025, UK DSIT stated prime minister set out new AI blueprint, see #240024.
In Jun. 2025, UK DSIT discussed UK worker AI training with tech giants, see #258636.
