Launch a National AI Research and Innovation Programme to improve coordination and collaboration between the country's researchers, while "boosting business and public sector adoption of AI technologies and their ability to take them to market." Launch a joint Office for AI (OAI) and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) programme aimed at continuing to develop AI in sectors based outside of London and the South East. This would focus on the commercialisation of ideas and could see, for example, the government focusing investment, researchers and developers to work in areas which currently do not use much AI technology but have potential, such as energy and farming. Publish a joint review with UKRI into the availability and capacity of computing power for UK researchers and organisations, including the physical hardware needed to drive a major roll out in AI technologies. The review will also consider wider needs for the commercialisation and deployment of AI, including its environmental impacts.

Bengaluru: India will inevitably be one of the world's artificial intelligence (AI) superpowers, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer, Microsoft Corp. said at the ongoing Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (RAISE 2020) event. Smith indicated that India's national strategy on AI is the right foundation, not just to advance AI but also topromote responsible AI built on firm ethical principles. The government of India is in the process of finalizing a national strategy on AI which was released in June 2018. The strategy outlines the proposed efforts in research, development, adoption and skilling in AI. "AI can revolutionize virtually every part of the economy, and I think in so many ways the countries that move the fastest to deploy AI more quickly than others, will find that they will be accelerating economic growth," Smith said. If applied in the right way, AI will not be a competitor to the thinking or work of human beings but a tool that can augment and add to what humans can accomplish.