London Tech Week underway at the Olympia

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The UK must persuade a “sceptical” public that artificial intelligence (AI) can improve millions of lives and transform the way business and Whitehall works, Sir Keir Starmer said.

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00:00London Tech Week will run until Friday and this year's rendition is already a very big deal.

00:09The annual event takes place across London but is centred at the Olympia in Hammersmith.

00:17It describes itself as an event with over 90 countries represented where the global tech

00:24ecosystem intersects with the investment, innovation and talent which calls London home.

00:32The Prime Minister's attendance on Monday was particularly significant and he was quick to back

00:41his support for AI despite public concern over the increasing use of artificial intelligence.

00:49Sir Keir acknowledged people's concerns about the rapid rise of AI technology and the risk to their jobs

00:57but stressed the benefits it would have on the delivery of public services, automating bureaucracy

01:05and even suggesting it would allow staff such as social workers and nurses to be more human.

01:14He said the government was committing an extra £1 billion of funding to scale up the UK's compute power

01:23by a factor of 20. The Prime Minister also announced at the event the launch of Extract,

01:31an AI assistant for planning officers and local councils developed by government with support from Google.

01:40This will supposedly help councils convert decades-old handwritten planning documents and maps into data in minutes

01:50and will power new types of software to slash 250,000 estimated hours spent by planning officers each year manually checking the paperwork.

02:02Which sounds an odd thing to say but it's true and we need to say it because look,

02:08some people out there are sceptical. They do worry about AI taking their job.

02:14And I know for an audience like this, this is a debate that's been had perhaps many times and we need to push past it.

02:21But for people listening to us, they worry about will it make their lives more complicated?

02:27However, this there has been a very amazing conversation.

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02:34There people will be saying, yeah, thank you.

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02:37There people will be automated.

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