UK government faces major backlash from creative industries against its plan to “turbocharge” AI across the country

UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer during a visit of the Manufacturing Futures Lab at UCL .

Earlier this week, the UK government announced that artificial intelligence “will be unleashed” across the UK to “turbocharge growth and living standards.”

According to the UK government, this ominous statement includes fifty measures and "three main pillars that will lay the foundations for “AI to grow, boost adoption in existing private and public sectors, and keep the UK ahead of the pack internationally.”