Good read. Anecdotally I’ve had a lot of traction from UK policymakers when discussing the broad argument that we need to be bullish on AI growth as a matter of national security, but I’ve struggled a lot more to get engagement on more practical things like building data centres.
I’d like to see our government frame the argument for building this sort of growth-enabling infrastructure in national security terms. For example, I thought that the ‘levelling up’ style comms push around AI Growth Zones in Wales contributed to the perception that we’re looking to build infrastructure there for some soft reason related to regional inequality, rather than those areas being well-suited to strategically important infrastructure.
(This is quite tangential to the piece but I have lots of practical thoughts about how you would push for this in the UK specific context that I’d love to scheme out if anyone else reading this works in the field).
Good read. Anecdotally I’ve had a lot of traction from UK policymakers when discussing the broad argument that we need to be bullish on AI growth as a matter of national security, but I’ve struggled a lot more to get engagement on more practical things like building data centres.
I’d like to see our government frame the argument for building this sort of growth-enabling infrastructure in national security terms. For example, I thought that the ‘levelling up’ style comms push around AI Growth Zones in Wales contributed to the perception that we’re looking to build infrastructure there for some soft reason related to regional inequality, rather than those areas being well-suited to strategically important infrastructure.
(This is quite tangential to the piece but I have lots of practical thoughts about how you would push for this in the UK specific context that I’d love to scheme out if anyone else reading this works in the field).
Cool! I think the UK could play a leading role here, convening a middle powers coalition and leading on its strategy