Lexology January 17, 2025
The government wants to ramp up AI adoption across the UK, and this much-heralded plan sets out what it thinks will be needed
On 13 January 2025, to much fanfare, the UK government published tech entrepreneur Matt Clifford’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, an ambitious proposal for ramping up artificial intelligence (AI) development and adoption across the UK. At the same time, the government published a detailed response, accepting all 50 recommendations and setting out how it proposed to take them forward.
The government believes that AI is game-changing and can power the UK’s growth, but that there is a real risk that the UK will fall behind on AI development unless it seriously ups its game, and quickly. The raft...