Is Keir Starmer's AI revolution progress or pipe dream? How to balance bold promises with common sense
13 January 2025, 12:40
By Will Guyatt, technology correspondent
LBC’s Will Guyatt on whether Keir Starmer's Plan for Change means anything.
When a government press release lands in your mailbox and promises that their new plan "mainlines AI into the veins of this enterprising nation" you know that Artificial Intelligence is one of the most popular buzzwords and the great hope for another year ahead.
In a dump of around ten A4 pages worth of spiel and briefing notes, the government paints the picture of the UK as "Agents of Change" - the idea that AI will transform the lives of working people, and the government will use it to miraculously solve all the public sector's problems.
Apparently, AI will speed up........
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