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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Heather Stewart

Clustering of AI firms in south and east of England will foil levelling up – report

A visitor tries a Meta Quest 3 headset at the Meta AI Day in London, 9 April 2024.
A visitor tries a Meta Quest 3 headset at the Meta AI Day in London, 9 April 2024. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Investments in new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are “profoundly skewed” towards the “golden triangle” of Oxford, Cambridge and London, and risk deepening existing regional inequalities in England, according to research.

Ministers have promised to level up the country, narrowing the gap between the best- and worst-performing areas, but the rapid rollout of generative AI and automation could cut against that aspiration, according to the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW).

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