Topic

UK AI policy

British government policy on artificial intelligence, spanning compute infrastructure, planning consent, regulation and public investment programmes.

Current clusters

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Cabinet Office rules out an emergency shutdown power for frontier AI in the UK

A cross-party group of peers and MPs wants a legal power to force a frontier AI model offline in an emergency. The Cabinet Office told the BBC that blocking UK access would not stop models being developed or misused elsewhere.

Publishers:bbc.co.uk

Reality

Evidence52
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+22
Incentives62
Confidence45

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An FOI answer credits a 720-megawatt data centre campus with 400 permanent jobs

Verdant traced operational headcount through the planning files of 20 planned UK sites and got 1.2 jobs per megawatt against techUK's 8.5, on the day Andy Burnham told the Commons he would not pause consent.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption25
Hype gap+18
Incentives78
Confidence55