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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has outlined his pledge for AI learning resources in schools, claiming the technology can be "hugely transformative" for Britain.Delivering a speech to London Tech Week, Starmer said: "We have to recognise that for many people, they see AI and tech as transformative, that it's going to do so much. Whether it's health or other sectors, it's hugely transformative."What I wanted hardwired into our defence review was a real sense of how AI and tech would be driving our defence of the future. There are so many examples across Government."I've set the challenge to all of my teams to show me how they can use AI, not just in the output of Government, not just in the partnership with yourselves and others and the delivery of services, but also in the very way that we do Government."WATCH ABOVE.

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00:00We start by thanking you all for being here. We're going to have a really good tech week.

00:06We've already kicked off yesterday. We've got some major announcements to make, some real

00:10partnership to do together, and I'm just so pleased to have this opportunity, this privilege

00:16of opening this morning. A real pleasure for me. And my constituency, the area I represent,

00:23is London. I'm a London MP, and that means that I understand firsthand just how important

00:30it is for our sector as we go forward. And, you know, whether it's entrepreneurs, whether

00:38it's the spirit in London, as we go forward, this is hugely, hugely important. We have to

00:44recognize that for many people, they see AI and tech as transformative, going to do so

00:53much. And every time you say over five years or ten years, everybody says to me, shorten

00:57that gear. It's going to be more like five years and three years that we're going to bring

01:01about great change in so many aspects of our life, whether that's in health, where I've

01:08seen for myself the incredible contribution that tech and AI can make. Standing in a hospital

01:14up in the Midlands, talking to consultants who deal with strokes, and they showed me the

01:22equipment, the techniques that they are using, using AI to isolate for stroke victims exactly

01:29where the clot is in the brain, in a microsecond of the time it would have taken otherwise,

01:36brilliantly saving people's lives in that particular occasion. And shortly after that, I had an incident

01:44where I was being shown AI and stethoscopes working together to predict any problem someone might

01:51have. So whether it's health or other sectors, it's hugely transformative what can be done here.

01:58Last week, last Monday in fact, I was standing in Scotland launching the strategic defence review of the

02:05government. This was a review that I commissioned soon after we came into power to tell me what are the

02:13risks that we face as a country in this new era, what are the challenges, what are our capabilities

02:21and how do we make sure that as we go forward our capabilities match the risks and the challenges

02:27that we face as a country. And in that, tech and AI were absolutely central because as you will perhaps

02:36have seen over the last three years or more during this awful conflict in Ukraine, I've been back to Ukraine

02:43on a number of occasions in that three-year period to have in-depth conversations with President Zelensky

02:50to make sure that our support is in the right place. But I was really struck, the trip before last that I did,

02:56this was probably about six or seven weeks ago, the extent to which technology and AI was now having a direct

03:04impact in that conflict was huge. In three years of conflict, the way in which that war was being

03:12fought had changed profoundly. And therefore, what I wanted hardwired into our defence review was a real

03:19sense of how AI and tech would be driving our defence of the future. There are so many examples across

03:27government. I've set the challenge to all of my teams to show me how they can use AI, not just in

03:33the output of government, not just in the partnership with yourselves and others and the delivery of

03:39services, but also in the very way that we do government. How do we transform what we do? And there

03:45are so many examples of that. I spoke to a social worker in Downing Street at one of our receptions,

03:52and she explained to me, with a smile on her face, just how AI is slashing her paperwork and her case

04:01load. And she showed and talked me through the way in which she's now doing her work. And what she said

04:07to me was that this was helping her transform the work that she did, because she was helping her transform

WATCH: Keir Starmer outlines pledge for AI learning resources in schools - 'makes us more human'

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