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The UK is a global hub for artificial intelligence (AI) innovation. Behind the US and China, it has a strong claim to be the third best place in the world to be an AI researcher or company founder. While it was sold to Google, Deepmind, which recently “changed everything” by solving the protein folding problem, is testament to the UK’s AI talent. But in the words of a House of Lords Liaison Committee, there is “no room of complacency”.
With Brexit and the pandemic, the UK Government has been a little distracted, but it’s trying to get back on track, announcing a plan to make the UK a global center for the development, commercialization and adoption of responsible AI. This plan will be published in the Autumn and to that end, we have put out a…