{"id":1022591,"date":"2026-07-21T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022591"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:46:21","slug":"who-is-indian-origin-mp-kanishka-narayan-uks-first-ai-minister-appointed-by-new-prime-minister-andy-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/21\/who-is-indian-origin-mp-kanishka-narayan-uks-first-ai-minister-appointed-by-new-prime-minister-andy-burnham\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Indian-origin MP Kanishka Narayan? UK&#8217;s first AI minister appointed by new Prime Minister Andy Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, on Monday (local time), named Kanishka Narayan as minister for artificial intelligence (AI), making the position a cabinet-level role for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Narayan, who is a Labour politician from Wales, was appointed minister for AI and online safety in September 2025 under Burnham&#8217;s predecessor, Keir Starmer. As a junior minister, he served under Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, who was removed by the new British premier alongside several senior ministers who served under Starmer, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, on Monday (local time), named Kanishka Narayan as minister for artificial intelligence (AI), making the position a cabinet-level role for the first time. Narayan, who is a Labour politician from Wales, was appointed minister for AI and online safety in September 2025 under Burnham&#8217;s predecessor, Keir Starmer. As a junior minister, he served under Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, who was removed by the new British premier alongside several senior ministers who served under Starmer, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022592,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022591\/revisions\/1022592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}