With Britain Leaving the EU, the Bloc Could Lose its Optimism on AI

According to a European Parliament report, the U.K. has also been among the first countries in the EU to define its AI plans, with political and business leaders starting a national conversation even before the White House announced a summit on artificial intelligence in May 2018. London is in many ways Europe's AI capital, with numbers showing the city has more AI suppliers than New York, Paris and Berlin, lagging behind only Silicon Valley. Investments in AI startups in the U.K. totalled $1.3 billion in 2018 and overall, when talking about AI, the United Kingdom had an optimistic proactive attitude, worried about ethics, but not enough to stall innovation and progress, experts say.