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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Robert Booth UK technology editor

‘Mainlined into UK’s veins’: Labour announces huge public rollout of AI

A primary school teacher with two children
Teachers could use AI to personalise lesson plans under Labour’s proposals. Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images

Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects.

Keir Starmer will launch a sweeping action plan to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030 and deploy AI for everything from spotting potholes to freeing up teachers to teach.

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