On January 13, 2025, the UK Prime Minister announced the AI
Opportunities Action Plan (Action Plan) and associated UK
Government response.
Prepared by Matt Clifford CBE, the Action Plan is a series of 50
recommendations on how to make the most of AI opportunities, not
least to drive economic growth and improve public services and
interaction with government. The Action Plan focuses on three core
goals: "Invest in the foundations of AI", "Push hard
on cross-economy AI adoption" and "Position the UK to be
an AI maker, not an AI taker".
The recommendations, addressing a wide range of actions, have
been generally accepted by the Government. Whilst not everything is
new, the Government response is a helpful summary of what we can
expect to see in the coming months and years. Amongst other
things:
