Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Cocoa Khan. And I'm Nish Kumar on today's show. Can AI save the UK?

So I've just asked CHAPGT and apparently it can. AI can revitalise the UK by driving economic growth,

improving public services and advancing sustainability through innovation, efficiency and strategic

investment in technology, digital

skills and arsenic. I made that last bit up. Just labour the point that you can't trust them.

You are not given enough credit to the quality of your voice work. Your range of accents is

beyond compare. Someone actually had to say to me recently, you should just be careful about the range

of actions that you do

because you might start to offend people. So I think I'm safe with this one.

Well, write in and let us know, American listeners. How happy were you with that accent?

To find out what this means for the United Kingdom, we're joined by technology journalist Chris Stokel Walker.

And with the far right surging all over the world, we'll also be chatting to systems theorist

and investigative journalist Nefiz Ahmed about how to fight it.

And later, we'll be sharing your thoughts

on Elon Musk's unwelcome interventions into British politics.

AI isn't something sort of of the future over the next hill.

It's the present. It's already here.

In Britain, changing lives, a chance to turbocharge growth, create the companies of the future and radically improve our public services. Prime Minister Kirstamaahma there announcing his AI gambit to the media.

So what's the fuss all about?

The government is calling it the AI Opportunities Action Plan.

And as we heard there, Stama is hoping artificial intelligence will turbocharge growth,

which is a marked evolution from last year's rhetoric,

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