AI Opportunities Action Plan Presented to Parliamentby the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technologyby Command of HisMajesty January 2025 © Crown copyright2025 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.To view this licence, visitnationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from thecopyright holders concerned. This publication is available atwww.gov.uk/official-documents. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us ataiactionplan@dsit.gov.uk. ISBN978-1-5286-5362-6 E03258815 01/25 Printed on papercontaining40% recycled fibre content minimum. Printed in the UK by HH Associates Ltd. on behalf of the Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office. Contents Contents__________________________________________________________________3 Foreword by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology_____________4The opportunity____________________________________________________________5 1.1 Building sufficient, secure and sustainable AI infrastructure______________________7 1.2 Unlocking data assets in the public and private sector__________________________9 1.3 Training, retaining, and attracting the next generation of AI scientists and founders__10 1.4 Enabling safe and trusted AI development and adoption through regulation, safety andassurance______________________________________________________________13 2.Change lives by embracing AI____________________________________________16 2.1 AI Adoption is core to delivering the government's missions____________________16 2.2 Adopt a “Scan→Pilot→Scale” approach in government______________________17 2.3 Enable public and private sectors to reinforce each other______________________19 2.4 Address private-sector-user-adoption barriers_______________________________19 3.Secure our future with homegrown AI_______________________________________21Conclusion_______________________________________________________________24 Foreword by theSecretary of State forScience, Innovation and Technology Today, Britain is the third largest AI market in the world. We are home to an extraordinary arrayof global talent and pioneering AI firms likeGoogleDeepMind, ARM, and Wayve. But despiteour record of scientific discovery–from Alan Turing on algorithms and general-purposecomputing to Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web–the UK risks falling behind the advances inArtificial Intelligence made in the USA and China. In this next phase of AI development, we want Britain to step up; to shape the AI revolutionrather than wait to see how it shapes us. Because we believe Britain has a particularresponsibility to provide global leadership in fairly and effectively seizingthe opportunities ofAI, as we have done on AI safety. That is why one of my first acts as Secretary of State was tocommission Matt Clifford to devise an AI Opportunities Action Plan for the British government. This plan shows how we can shape the application of AI within a modern social marketeconomy. We will do so by working closely with the world’s leading AI companies, Britain’sworld leading academics and entrepreneurs, and those talented individuals keen to start-upand scale-up their businesses here.Our ambition is to shape the AI revolution on principles ofshared economic prosperity, improved public services and increased personal opportunities sothat: •AI drives the economic growth on which the prosperity of our people and theperformance of our public services depend;•AI directly benefits working people by improving health care and education and howcitizens interact with their government; and•the increasing of prevalence of AI in people’s working lives opens up new opportunitiesrather than just threatens traditional patterns of work. Across government, we have already taken decisive action to support the AI sector and takedown the barriers to growth. Our transformative planning reforms will make it easier to build thedata centres that are the engines of the AI age. Skills England will help ensure that Britishpeople are prepared for jobs in the AI-powered industries of tomorrow. The Digital Centre ofGovernment I have created in my Department will drive forward the technologicaltransformation of the state, ensuring that public services offer citizens the same seamlessexperience they can find in the private sector. The recommendations in this plan are unapologetic in their ambition; Government must be thesame. Delivering our AI vision for Britain requires lots of hard work, some tough choices, and acommitment to real partnership between public and private sectors.There’s no time to waste.Today, we have set out how we will rise to the challenge. The Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP,Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology The opportunity AI capabilities are developing at an