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<p>Artificial Intelligence is one of the global trends which will transform our future,
changing jobs and businesses across the country, and we want people to be able to
capitalise on these opportunities.</p><p>The AI Sector Deal, announced in April 2018,
outlines up to £0.95bn package of support for the sector, which includes Government,
industry and academic contributions.</p><p>Since the Sector Deal launch the Government
has invested in a number of areas. For example:</p><ul><li>Announcement of £20 million
Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) support for Next Generation Services using
artificial intelligence, and £210 million ISCF support for Data to early diagnostics
and precision medicine which includes using AI to analyse medical images in digital
pathology.</li><li>Funded up to £50m for five new centres of excellence for digital
pathology and imaging, including radiology, using AI medical advances.</li><li>Funded
£30m for the new Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, a world-leading centre of data science
and AI in October 2018.</li><li>£3m for three new research projects to investigate
how businesses can make best use of AI in insurance and law as well as analysing consumer
attitudes to AI.</li><li>Announced up to £79 million of Government funding to study
5 million healthy people to develop new diagnostic tests using AI.</li><li>Announced
up to £79 million for three new AI programmes to transform engineering, urban planning
and healthcare.</li><li>Announced £600,000 funding for UK-Korea Health Sciences collaboration
to focus on better diagnosis of dementia through the use of AI.</li><li>40 artificial
intelligence and data analytics projects, backed by £13 million in Government, announced
to boost productivity and improve customer service.</li></ul><p>Our ambition in AI
and data will not stop at the Sector Deal. This is only the start of the UK’s plans
to be recognised as a place where ingenuity and entrepreneurship can flourish, where
technology follows the highest ethical standards and where the transformative potential
of this technology is spread across the UK economy more widely and for the betterment
of society.</p>
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