UK announces Meta-backed AI team to upgrade public services

The British government said on Tuesday ‍it had recruited a team of artificial intelligence specialists to build ⁠AI tools to improve transport, public safety and defence, using funding from Meta.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, like many other ‌leaders around the ‌world, is looking to tap into the huge economic potential ‌of developing an AI industry and, at the same time, use the technology to improve productivity across government.