London Tech Week - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer snuggles up to NVDIA CEO Jensen Huang and gets some AI tough love in return

Brexit Britain is to be an “AI maker, not an AI taker!”

As political sloganeering goes, my first thoughts on hearing that turned to US comedy series Veep and the likes of ‘Continuity with change’ or ‘I’m an Ameri-can, not an Ameri-can’t’. But that AI call-to-arms didn’t come from a fictional Washington politician, but a very real British one - no less a figure than the current UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, as he gave a keynote address to open London Tech Week.

I’ve always been wary when politicians starting flirting with the tech sector. The urge to be seen teetering precariously on the bleeding edge of modernity is a phase that comes over most of them at some stage in their political careers, particularly it seems once they reach Ministerial status. There was a time when the previous Conservative government couldn’t get through a month ...