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Evening Standard
Holly Williams

UK risks missing out on £200bn boost from slow take-up of AI, warns Google

The treaty will require countries to monitor the development of AI (Alamy/PA) -

The boss of Google’s UK and European operations has issued a “call to arms” over a worrying gap in the UK’s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) that could leave Britain at risk of missing out on a £200 billion boost to the economy.

New research from the tech giant suggests that two-thirds of workers (66%) in Britain have never used generative AI in their jobs, with usage particularly low among women over 55 and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

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