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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Kiran Stacey and Lisa O'Carroll

‘Late in the game’: Sunak and Starmer in policy scramble as AI surges ahead

Rishi Sunak (left) and Joe Biden stand at lecterns in the White House on Thursday
Rishi Sunak persuaded Joe Biden to sign up to an AI summit to be hosted in the UK later this year. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP

Rishi Sunak will set out his views on artificial intelligence next week to an audience of technology industry insiders during a keynote speech at London Tech Week. Twenty-four hours later, Keir Starmer will do the same.

The prime minister and the Labour leader have a habit of speaking at the same venue within a day of each other – they did so at the beginning of the year when setting out their competing visions for the country from the same room at the Olympic Park in east London.

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