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UK asks Matt Clifford to write an AI Opportunities Action Plan for the new government

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Source: GOV.UK: AI expert to lead action plan to ensure UK reaps the benefits of artificial intelligence

Science Secretary Peter Kyle appointed Matt Clifford, chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, on 26 July 2024 to lead an AI Opportunities Action Plan, with recommendations due in September 2024. The plan was to cover AI adoption in public services and the economy, a UK AI sector able to scale, and the compute, talent and data the country needs to 2030. DSIT said it would set up an AI Opportunities Unit to carry out the recommendations.

Why it matters

Weeks after taking office, the Labour government made AI adoption and compute the centre of its AI policy, and the resulting plan set UK public-sector AI work for 2025.

When
26 Jul 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0112
Who
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, ARIA; Peter Kyle, Matt Clifford
Rules involved

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from GOV.UK. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at GOV.UK

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toUK adopts all 50 AI Opportunities Action Plan recommendations; Culham first Growth Zone

Data to measure this

Compare the years before 2024 with the years since in these series.

  • Epoch AI: frontier AI data centresEpoch AISite-level timelines of IT power, compute (H100-equivalents) and capital cost for large AI data centres.live · download · CSV
  • Epoch AI: GPU clusters (archived)Epoch AIMore than 500 GPU clusters and AI supercomputers with country, owner, performance, power and cost.Years: 2019-2025 · one-off · download · CSV · Covers before and after
  • IEA Energy and AI dataInternational Energy AgencyWorld and regional data-centre capacity, power usage effectiveness, load factor and electricity use.download · XLSX

All data for United Kingdom

Cite this story

WTA-N-2024-0112: “UK asks Matt Clifford to write an AI Opportunities Action Plan for the new government.” wheresthe.ai, 26 Jul 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-ai-opportunities-action-plan-commissioned-2024-07/ (source: GOV.UK: AI expert to lead action plan to ensure UK reaps the benefits of artificial intelligence).

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