Training future leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The government has announced new measures to train the next generation of leaders in Artificial Intelligence, keeping the UK at the forefront of this emerging technology and creating high-skilled jobs around the country.

Key facts:
  • We are launching a nationwide programme of industry-funded AI Masters courses, coupled with work-based placements, to drive up skills in the AI sector. 
  • We will also open 16 new AI Centres for Doctoral Training at universities around the country, where 1,000 students will have the opportunity to enhance their skills while developing the UK’s world-leading research into Artificial Intelligence. 
  • Up to five AI research Fellowships will also be created, in collaboration with the Alan Turing Institute, to attract and retain the best research talent from around the world. 

Why this matters:

The UK is leading the way on AI, and this announcement, as part of our modern Industrial Strategy, will help to drive high-skilled jobs, growth and productivity across the whole UK.

  • Today’s AI announcement comes as new figures show investment in the UK’s AI sector reached a record high last year – almost as much as the rest of Europe combined. 
  • The number of venture capital investments into the UK’s rapidly growing AI sector leapt by 17 per cent last year. 
  • Tech Nation have said that that the figures prove the UK has ‘the strongest AI investment market in Europe’, outstripping places like France and Germany.

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