We've today backed a challenge from the Prime Minister, Theresa May, to make the UK a world leader in the use of data and artificial intelligence to help transform the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases in the UK. Speaking in Macclesfield, the Prime Minister challenged the NHS, leading health charities and industry to accelerate progress in using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to quicken the diagnosis of conditions including heart and circulatory disease, cancer and dementia. The speech supports the Government's Industrial Strategy, which includes four Grand Challenges to put the UK at the forefront of future technologies and industries. This includes growing the artificial intelligence and data driven economy and managing an ageing society. Data science is the use of maths, statistics and computer science to get answers from large, complex data sets, while AI is the use of computer algorithms to draw conclusions from this type of data without direct human input.