UK Scales Back £400 Billion AI Economic Forecast, Citing Slow Adoption

UK officials had claimed AI would add £400 billion to the economy, but the AI minister now says the realistic estimate is less than a third of that, with researchers pointing to the country's slow adoption rate.

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2026-11-04 13:49 · Wired AI
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