Show Notes
The government believes access to sufficient AI infrastructure and compute capacity will be critical for the UK’s economic growth, productivity and global competitiveness – but the UK is in a global race for investment, talent and consequential technological breakthroughs.
So how can ministers and civil servants deliver the government’s ambitions?
Last June, the government announced over £1bn of investment in the UK’s compute capacity, while the government’s Compute Roadmap outlines its strategic approach to building world-class compute infrastructure in the UK. But will this infrastructure translate into the growth and productivity gains that the government has forecast? How can government attract private sector investment? How can the Cabinet Office, DBIST, DCMS, HMT, DESNZ and No 10 best cooperate to drive the whole of the state in support of the strategy? And what are the key challenges for new prime minister Andy Burnham in realising the government’s AI infrastructure goals?
To discuss all this and more, the IfG brought together an expert panel, including:
Emily Darlington MP, Member of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee
Matt Davies, Economic and Social Policy Lead at Ada Lovelace Institute
Matthew Harris, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at HPE
Mary Jones, Director for AI Adoption and Preparedness at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
The event was chaired by Heloise Dunlop, Researcher at the Institute for Government.
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