Emergency Podcast: How will Andy Burnham change the UK's AI strategy?

We’re looking at what could become a major reset coming for Britain’s AI strategy. According to the Financial Times, Andy Burnham, who is tipped to be the next UK Prime Minster, is exploring a shift away from the current policy towards one built around UK AI sovereignty, regional growth and re-skilling, as opposed to the more AI-forward approach we’d become used to under Sir Keir Starmer, who had wooed US tech giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, while promoting of home-grown AI companies. Indeed, it even launched a £500 sovereign AI fund. But are we about to see the rise of a far more tech-sceptical UK administration? 

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Host: Mike Butcher, Founder & Editor, Pathfounders.com and former Editor-at-large of TechCrunch. 

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Guest: Alys Key, an Editor, Writer and Journalist, who writes the Substack newsletter, UK2.0.

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Guest: Meryem Arik, Co-founder and CEO at Doubleword, which builds high-performance open source model inference infrastructure for AI at scale.

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