Kanishka Narayan, the UK's AI minister, said the government should take a position between extreme boosterism and extreme scepticism or doomerism, which he described as the median view in the Westminster bubble. He said AI Growth Zone delivery has not moved at the pace he wanted and he is focused on all five sites. He named UK reliance on US frontier AI models as his biggest security concern and said next year's UK-hosted G20 is a chance to push for a global code on AI. He also said he uses AI-generated synthetic focus groups from a private company to test messaging. Sets out the UK government's AI priorities, including the five AI Growth Zones and sovereign AI capability.
