Forging the UK’s AI Future

While government has declared that the development of AI technologies is a major priority for the UK’s growth strategy there remains little clarity on UK AI policy while industry continues to wait for the long anticipated UK AI Bill.

The RDS is therefore launching an programme as part of its Big Tent Initiative to bring experts and stakeholders from industry and beyond to provide an outline of how to build an effective national AI framework that balances the interests of the British public while also driving innovation forward and boosting the economy.

Forging the UK's AI Future, will endeavour to delve into the detail of UK policy around the development and deployment of artificial intelligence from multiple angles. Our detailed frameworks can describe the broad technological and commercial challenges of these emerging technologies, as well as understand the narrow impacts affecting different market spaces. By leveraging our new frameworks and incorporating insights from the brightest minds working the field, we will deliver a series of reports that outline a new national AI policy framework.

To build this framework the we are taking a multipronged approach with a series of online workshops focusing on the broad horizontal impacts of the AI technology stack alongside a series of vertically focused workshops, each tackling specific market spaces. These will inform (and be informed by) an expert panel of individuals on the frontlines of AI technology development and deployment who will assess the UK's current and desired priorities for a policy platform using the RDS' Macro-Meso Framework.