Message to ministers: AI can transform the way we live right now

Artificial intelligence (AI) is likely to prove the most transformative technology of the 21st century. Those of us who work in the field – whether in the public or private sector – are at a frontier that is advancing at an ever-accelerating rate. Yet my work on tech policy at the Government Digital Service and the Home Office often left me in despair. At a time when the possibilities created by AI are multiplying rapidly, the government isn't really at the races. The Government's Digital Strategy, published yesterday, and the government's Transformation Strategy, published a couple of weeks ago, are a case in point.