The AI issue: progress, economy, jobs & learning; Tezos tantrum; paperclips, concrete, Soviet Woodstock #136

The second problem in this report is how those trained PhDs actually create value and to what extent that value will accrue to the UK economy over the next few years. The biggest commercial AI centres in the UK are owned by American firms (Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, and so on). And those with AI PhDs will be in high demand in those firms, as well as in high demand in nations which welcome migrating talent. As it is many of the UK AI teams I have met are made up of broad swathes of European talent, whose status in the UK post-Brexit is not guaranteed by the Government. How will the UK retain people with some of the most desirable technical skills in the world?