UK Government's Keir Starmer To Unveil AI Leadership Plan

Keir Starmer is to introduce a 50-point plan to position the UK as a global leader in artificial intelligence, focusing on education, immigration, data infrastructure, and diversity.

- Promote AI-focused courses at UK universities to produce thousands of new graduates.
- Revise immigration rules to attract AI experts immediately, establishing internal headhunting with competitive pay.
- Invest in large data centres and increase AI compute capacity by 20 times by 2030.
- Revise data mining regulations to enhance UK competitiveness and align with EU standards.
- Encourage AI entrepreneurship and support major AI companies like Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta AI.

Starmer emphasises the need to act now to lead the AI revolution and ensure the UK's economic growth.

The plan will be announced today,13th Monday.