{"id":1022737,"date":"2026-07-22T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022737"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:13:03","slug":"who-is-kanishka-narayan-indian-origin-politician-becomes-1st-ai-minister-to-attend-uk-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/who-is-kanishka-narayan-indian-origin-politician-becomes-1st-ai-minister-to-attend-uk-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Kanishka Narayan? Indian-origin politician becomes 1st AI minister to attend UK Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant first, the United Kingdom has elevated its Minister for Artificial Intelligence to a full cabinet-level position. Kanishka Narayan, an Indian-origin Labour politician from Wales, has been promoted to the role amid the global AI boom. <\/p>\n<p>Narayan, initially appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety) in September 2025 under then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will retain his position and gain cabinet status under the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The move comes after Starmer\u2019s resignation in June, which led to a cabinet reshuffle in which several senior ministers lost their positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant first, the United Kingdom has elevated its Minister for Artificial Intelligence to a full cabinet-level position. Kanishka Narayan, an Indian-origin Labour politician from Wales, has been promoted to the role amid the global AI boom. Narayan, initially appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Minister for AI and Online Safety) in September 2025 under then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer, will retain his position and gain cabinet status under the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The move comes after Starmer\u2019s resignation in June, which led to a cabinet reshuffle in which several senior ministers lost their positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022737","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022756,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022737\/revisions\/1022756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}