Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden says the UK is “on the threshold of an enormous technological advancement” as he lays out the government’s plans to use Artificial Intelligence to deliver and improve public services.
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00:00This is a huge opportunity for the United Kingdom.
00:02We're on the threshold of an enormous technological advance.
00:06And the action plan on AI published by the government today aims to do two things.
00:12The first is to make the UK a welcome home for the billions of pounds of investment
00:16that are going into this technology.
00:18It's either going to come to the UK or it's going to go somewhere else.
00:21And we want it to be the UK.
00:23But the second is to make sure that we are applying the technology
00:27throughout the public and private sectors
00:29so that we can deal with one of the long-standing problems
00:32faced by the British economy, and that's productivity.
00:35So there's some really exciting advances in health, education and other fields
00:40that can be better value for the taxpayer and make these services more productive.