Key takeaways from Keir Starmer’s action plan for AI

1. A sovereign AI drive

Ministers want to ensure that the UK is able to produce its own AI models – the technology that underpins tools such as the ChatGPT chatbot. To that end, the plan recommends a 20-fold increase in the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030. This will include building a brand new “supercomputer” at a location to be decided.

Then there is data, the core fuel of AI. If AI can be broadly described as computer systems performing tasks that typically…