Tony Blair explains why UK should ‘fully embrace AI’
Tony Blair explains why UK should 'fully embrace AI'BBC
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00:00Our belief is that the only long-term solution to growth, productivity and better public
00:06services is the full embrace of this technology revolution, which prior to generative AI was
00:11already a revolution, and now I think you've got with generative AI a revolution on top
00:16of the revolution existing.
00:17If you take the areas where Britain is potentially strong, like life sciences, clean technology,
00:23artificial intelligence itself, after America and China, and this is the good news for the
00:28country, Britain's probably in third place for AI globally.
00:33We have in DeepMind, and the head of it's coming to our conference this morning, possibly
00:38one of the best, but even the best AI company in the world.
00:42So we've got enormous strengths, but we have to build those strengths, and that's a modern
00:46industrial policy.