Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It\u2019s no bad thing that Britain is embracing artificial intelligence. Who wouldn\u2019t want more technology that can diagnose cancer, fix potholes and nix credit card scams? Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer\u2019s grand scheme announced on Monday is thus helpful. But his goal of making the country a \u201cworld leader\u201d demands more than servers, algorithms and enthusiasm.The government\u2019s plan to mainline AI into the nation\u2019s veins comes in three parts. There\u2019s building infrastructure, using AI to make the country economically zingier, and creating homegrown champions, which the plan characterises as becoming a \u201cmaker\u201d rather than a \u201ctaker\u201d. The first part amounts to a kind of modest economic stimulus. In the US, data centres have impacted millions of jobs \u2014 although such facilities are not exactly labour intensive once up and running. Trade group Tech UK counted 43,500 British data centre jobs in a recent study. That could double in a decade, it estimated, but it\u2019s still small.Monetising Britain\u2019s \u2018intangible\u2019 infrastructure, for instance by making the UK\u2019s public data troves available for training large language models, is more valuable, provided privacy can be safeguarded, and already has some entrepreneurs salivating.The second pillar of Starmer\u2019s strategy \u2014 using AI \u2014 is a must-have. From the NHS to Britain\u2019s banks and retailers, the opportunity to juice productivity by crunching data and generating faster outputs is huge. Getting the private sector to co-operate presents a challenge. Previous governments played up AI\u2019s risks, so companies will take time to adapt. The British Chambers of Commerce last year found that four in 10 companies had \u201cno plans\u201d to adopt any specific AI technology.As always, the question lurks in the background: where is Britain\u2019s Google? While the search engine\u2019s AI sibling DeepMind is UK-born, and a leader in its field, there\u2019s still no equivalent to OpenAI, Elon Musk\u2019s xAI or Anthropic. When it comes to unlisted \u201cunicorns\u201d with valuations of more than $1bn, Britain does OK \u2014 but only OK. That speaks to Starmer\u2019s third pledge.Yet there\u2019s no way to compete with America\u2019s deep capital pools. Companies may take shape in the UK, but the US\u2019s revenue, commercial talent and opportunities to take companies public are impossible to replicate. The UK\u2019s biggest tech investment to date is the $1bn raised by autonomous driving company Wayve last year. By comparison, US-based OpenAI and xAI each raised $6bn in recent months.That makes the idea of creating a homegrown OpenAI, Google, Facebook or Tesla far-fetched. Even becoming more maker than a taker looks ambitious. But trying to beat superpowers like China and the US at their own game is a recipe for misallocating capital \u2014 both financial and political. Half an AI hub is a better than none.john.foley@ft.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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