Our satnav uses AI to plot the fastest routes for our journeys, or helps us avoid traffic by intelligently predicting where congestion will be on our journey. Streaming services already use advanced AI to recommend TV shows and films to us. Indeed, since AI is already in our day-to-day lives, there are numerous examples that can help to illustrate the real, tangible benefits that AI can bring once any risks are mitigated. AI in the workplace has the potential to free us up from these tasks, allowing us to spend more time doing the things we trained for – teachers with more time to teach, clinicians with more time to spend with patients, police officers with more time on the beat rather than behind a desk – the list goes on. In the modern world, too much of our professional lives are taken up by monotonous tasks – inputting data, filling out paperwork, scanning through documents for one piece of information and so on. Our white paper and our vision for a future AI-enabled country is one in which our ways of working are complemented by AI rather than disrupted by it. Some fear a future in which AI replaces or displaces jobs, for example. Indeed, the pace of change itself can be unsettling. Unless we build public trust, we will miss out on many of the benefits on offer. Unless we act, household consumers, public services and businesses will not trust the technology and will be nervous about adopting it. The development and deployment of AI can also present ethical challenges which do not always have clear answers. These risks could include anything from physical harm, an undermining of national security, as well as risks to mental health. That includes getting regulation right so that innovators can thrive and the risks posed by AI can be addressed. To ensure we become an AI superpower, though, it is crucial that we do all we can to create the right environment to harness the benefits of AI and remain at the forefront of technological developments. Our world-leading status is down to our thriving research base and the pipeline of expertise graduating through our universities, the ingenuity of our innovators and the government’s long-term commitment to invest in AI. We are home to a third of Europe’s total AI companies and twice as many as any other European country. The UK has been at the forefront of this progress, placing third in the world for AI research and development. It is a vision that has been shaped by stakeholders and experts in AI, whose expertise and ideas I am determined to see reflected in our department. That is why AI is one of this government’s 5 technologies of tomorrow – bringing stronger growth, better jobs, and bold new discoveries. I want our police, transport networks and climate scientists and many more to be empowered by AI technologies that will make the UK the smartest, healthiest, safest and happiest place to live and work. My vision for an AI-enabled country is one where our NHS heroes are able to save lives using AI technologies that were unimaginable just a few decades ago. Recent advances in things like generative AI give us a glimpse into the enormous opportunities that await us in the near future if we are prepared to lead the world in the AI sector with our values of transparency, accountability and innovation. But in many ways, AI is already delivering fantastic social and economic benefits for real people – from improving NHS medical care to making transport safer. Most of us are only now beginning to understand the transformative potential of AI as the technology rapidly improves. Having invested over £2.5 billion in AI since 2014, this paper builds on our recent announcements of £110 million for our AI Tech Missions Fund, £900 million to establish a new AI Research Resource and to develop an exascale supercomputer capable of running large AI models – backed up by our new £8 million AI Global Talent Network and £117 million of existing funding to create hundreds of new PhDs for AI researchers. Better public services, high quality jobs and opportunities to learn the skills that will power our future – these are the priorities that will drive our goal to become a science and technology superpower by 2030.Īrtificial Intelligence ( AI) will play a central part in delivering and enabling these goals, and this white paper will ensure we are putting the UK on course to be the best place in the world to build, test and use AI technology. I believe that a common-sense, outcomes-oriented approach is the best way to get right to the heart of delivering on the priorities of people across the UK. The Rt Hon Michelle Donelan MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
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