When it comes to the next technological revolution that will shape all our lives, the Prime Minister’s ambition for the UK is straightforward: we need to be an “AI maker, not an AI taker”.
Yet, this noble sentiment overlooks a real challenge that threatens to fatally undermine his vision. At the very moment Sir Keir Starmer was posing with industry leaders, including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, at London Tech Week this month, several of the UK’s most promising tech companies were announcing they were selling up to American buyers.
