Making AI Workfor Britain
Can the UK Deliver?
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A Critical Roadmap for UK Leadership
The UK has world-class AI assets — researchers, innovative companies, experienced civil servants — yet repeatedly falls short of realising their transformative potential.
Governance, skills, ethics, and innovation are interdependent, not competing priorities. The fragmented conversation between policymakers, business, and civil society prevents the integrated thinking that successful transformation requires.
The next three to five years are decisive. Hundreds of procurement decisions, infrastructure investments, and regulatory choices are collectively setting a strategic direction — whether or not anyone has chosen it.
Three Roads. One Choice.
The US Model
Prioritise speed, accept platform dependency, rely on market forces. Produces remarkable innovation but with extreme concentration and only 37% public trust.
The EU Model
Prioritise citizen protection through comprehensive regulation. Achieves 68% public support but the EU's share of global AI patents fell from 12% to 8%.
The UK's Adaptive Path
Build sovereign capability where it matters most, set governance standards others adopt, and use UK institutional assets as proving grounds for AI that is both innovative and accountable.
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Three Parts, One Argument
Historical lessons inform current priorities, and current priorities shape the strategic choices ahead.
What Got Us Here
The patterns of success and failure across decades of UK digital transformation — and why the same structural barriers keep recurring.
What Matters Now
The institutional, workforce, and governance challenges that must be addressed before path dependencies lock in.
What Comes Next
The UK in the global landscape, a distinctive strategic path, and a practical five-year implementation roadmap.
Professor Alan W. Brown
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