'Incredible change' What the action plan aims to do

The UK government has unveiled a wide-ranging action plan to boost the country's role in developing and deploying artificial intelligence.

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The 50 recommendations from the report, written by the tech investor Matt Clifford, have been endorsed by Keir Starmer, who says the technology will drive "incredible change in our country". Here are the plan's key points:

A sovereign AI drive

Ministers want to ensure the UK is able to produce its own AI models -the technology that underpins tools such as ChatGPT. To that end, the plan recommends a 20fold increase in the amount of AI computing power in public control by 2030. This will include building a brand new "supercomputer" at a location to be decided.

Then there is data, the core fuel of AI. If AI can be broadly described as computer systems performing tasks that typically require human intelligence, then they need data - from academic papers to classic novels and transcripts - to "learn" how to carry out those tasks.