One year on from its AI Opportunities Action Plan, the UK government has provided an update on progress. It reports delivery against 38 of 50 committed actions, spanning skills investment, public sector productivity, and the launch of AI Growth Zones.

It highlights an ambition to upskill 10 million workers in AI skills by 2030 and the introduction of TechFirst, TechLocal, TechGrad, TechExpert and Spärck AI Scholarship schemes. On public sector deployment, the metrics show encouraging signs of scale in healthcare, including one-third of NHS chest X-rays (2.4 million scans) utilising AI-assisted diagnosis. It has also laid the foundations to begin scaling a range of i.Ai productivity tools such as Minute (an AI scribe) and Extract (converts old planning documents into geospatial data).

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