During this year’s London Tech Week, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced it will provide £50m in funding to develop trustworthy and secure AI tools.
The announcement follows the Prime Minister's keynote speech at the conference, where Rishi Sunak pitched London as a tech hub to industry leaders and stressed his goal of making the UK "the best place in the world for tech AI".
As part of this effort, the UKRI's funding pledge will aim to bring experts across different fields together in order to drive forward AI research in the country.
Over half of the funding – £31m – will go to Responsible AI UK, a consortium led by the University of Southampton that aims to foster the safe and accountable use of AI, UKRI revealed. The consortium's goal is to help people understand what responsible and trustworthy AI is, how to develop it and build it into existing systems, and the impacts it will have on society.
It is led by Professor...