Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they have plans to invest in projects to improve the development of artificial intelligence in the UK.
Artificial Intelligence is one of the global trends which will transform our future, changing jobs and businesses across the country, and we want people to be able to capitalise on these opportunities.
The AI Sector Deal, announced in April 2018, outlines up to £0.95bn package of support for the sector, which includes Government, industry and academic contributions.
Since the Sector Deal launch the Government has invested in a number of areas. For example:
Our ambition in AI and data will not stop at the Sector Deal. This is only the start of the UK’s plans to be recognised as a place where ingenuity and entrepreneurship can flourish, where technology follows the highest ethical standards and where the transformative potential of this technology is spread across the UK economy more widely and for the betterment of society.