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UK's sovereign AI ambitions rest on foreign investment, not low regulation

By Frank Hersey ( November 27, 2025, 16:05 GMT | Comment) -- The UK government wants a series of low-regulation AI "growth zones" to attract investment and be a key plank in its ambitions to use the technology to drive economic growth, but much of the private investment is coming from abroad. Does that sit comfortably with an insistence on building a strong "sovereign" AI industry in the UK, or is it necessary to keep the UK's near the vanguard of the emerging technology? The artificial intelligence boom might promise an easier life for millions, but for the UK government it seems just to mean more pressure: mostly brought on itself from its co-option of AI technologies as key to its economic growth plans, also from critics who claim there is too much cozying up to US tech giants. ...

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