Add £54m to develop safe and trustworthy AI research

Universities across the UK will benefit from a massive £54m investment in developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Technology Secretary Chloe Smith announced today.

Delivered through UK Research and Innovation (Ukri), £31 million of the funding will be used to support groundbreaking research to establish a responsible and credible university at the University of Southampton. AIIt brings together the expertise of academia, business, and the public at large to explore how responsible behavior is done. AI It can be developed and utilized while considering the impact on wider society.

The Technology Secretary unveiled the package in his keynote address at London Tech Week, promoting efforts to secure the UK’s status as a science and technology powerhouse, boost economic growth and create better-paying jobs. The Chief Engineer also announced the launch of the UK Geospatial Strategy 2030. This will AIsatellite imagery and real-time data.

Technical Secretary Chloe Smith said:

Despite being a small island nation, the UK is a tech powerhouse. Last year, the UK became the third country in the world with a tech sector worth $1 trillion. It is by a small margin the largest in Europe and second only to the US and China globally.

But the technology landscape is constantly evolving, and we need a technology ecosystem that can adapt to that changing sand, capitalize on its opportunities, and meet new challenges. The measures announced today do just that.

we, AI Building a talent pipeline with a £54m package to develop trusted and secure artificial intelligence, doing our best to be a world leader in technology now and in the years to come.

AI Development presents enormous opportunities in nearly every aspect of modern life, especially in tackling the challenges of climate change and pursuing net-zero goals. As part of this investment, the rest of his £13m will be used to fund 13 projects aimed at pioneering research and development based in universities across the UK. AI Innovation in sustainable land management, efficient CO2 Improves resilience to natural disasters.

The effort follows March’s announcement of £117 million in funding for India’s doctoral training centre. AIincludes a further £46m to support Turing AI Fellowships to nurture the next generation of leaders AI talent.

In pursuit of the UK’s science and technology superpower ambitions, Chloe Smith also announced that the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will soon launch an open call to pilot a new collaborative approach to scientific research in the UK, offering £50 announced that it would start the proposal with the support of 1 million in government funds. The funding will drive investment and partnerships with industry and further afield to fund ideas and innovations not currently being tackled in UK research, and is set to launch in the coming weeks. This allows organizations to avoid the large initial costs normally required to set up an entirely new institution and to explore the feasibility of new models for conducting research in specific areas, thus increasing the UK research benefit the community.

The UK Science and Technology Framework sets out how the UK will respond to emerging and important technologies. Geospatial technology is one example, with the new UK Geospatial Strategy, launched tomorrow (Thursday 15 June), to promote the use of location data across the economy, including property, transport and more, to drive growth through innovation. To do.

Professor Dame Ottoline Reiser, UK Chief Research and Innovation Officer (Ukri) Said:

Ukri invests in people and technology that improve the lives of people in the UK and around the world. By supporting research for development, AI Aiming to be useful, trustworthy, and trusted, we are building a solid foundation for building new industries, products, and services in a wide range of fields.

Through cross-disciplinary partnerships, we ensure that responsible innovation is integrated into all aspects of our work as it progresses.

The measures announced today will further the government’s mission to make the UK one of the most innovative economies in the world and build a technology ecosystem that will solidify the UK’s position on the global frontier of technological development.

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full Ukri Supported programs

Responsible and trustworthy with £31m investment to build UK and international research and innovation ecosystem AI. The consortium, led by the University of Southampton, will fund interdisciplinary research and initiatives across academia, business and the public sector.

£2m for feasibility studies of 42 projects in companies as part of the BridgeAI programme. These projects will explore the development of various tools to facilitate evaluation. AI Empower technology through governance, fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy and security.

£8 million for two Turings AI The world’s leading researcher fellowship. It funds groundbreaking research on some of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenges, including its applications in medicine and food design, healthcare and his imaging.

Funding £13m for 13 projects to help the UK reach its net zero target.The project will consider development AI Technologies that enable more sustainable land management and accelerate energy efficiency CO2 Capture natural disasters and extreme events to improve resilience. Supported programs are:

• Imperial College London (£1.4m – Real-time digital optimization and decision-making for energy and transport systems)
• University of Edinburgh (£245,757 – real-time digital optimization and decision-making for energy and transport systems)
• University of Cambridge (£265,537 – Real-time digital optimization and decision-making for energy and transport systems)
• University of Oxford (£265,915 – Real-time digital optimization and decision-making for energy and transport systems)
• Heriot-Watt University (£1,790,578 – Realization) CO2 Capture and save using AI)
• Imperial College London (£762,325 – Validation) CO2 Capture and save using AI)
• University of Leicester (£2,492,147.67 – self-learning digital twin for sustainable land management)
• Durham University (£1,845,327 – Virtual Power Plant with Artificial Intelligence for Resilience and Decarbonization)
• University of Surrey (£1,436,523 – artificial intelligence to enable future optimal and flexible biogas production towards net zero)
• University of Exeter (£1,669,406 – User Bespoke) AI-Increased decision-making support to deliver UK forest expansion towards net zero)
• Aberystwyth University (£502,950 – Miscanthus) AI– Selection and breeding of plants for net zero)
• Lincoln University (£534,887 – Plant Selection and Breeding for Net Zero)
• University of Southampton (£254,638 – plant selection and breeding for net zero)