Keir Starmer will present a plan today for Britain to become the world leader in AI. Not just "a", mind. "The."
The idea is to steer more graduates into the sector and make it easier to build data centres, boost uptake of AI by businesses and so boost productivity and growth.
The goal is laudable and not inappropriate – the UK has form in computing (think Bletchley Park, Alan Turing, Geoff Hinton). Its universities outperform most rivals' as they have for eight centuries.
It's ranked fourth out of 83 countries in the Tortoise Global AI Index. But none of that is a license to be daft.
The US is so far ahead of the rest of the world in AI by every important measure in the index that Starmer will look foolish saying "the". It's beneath him.
