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Sir Keir hosted a private reception at Chequers on Sunday with leading technology bosses and investors (PA)<\/p>\nSecondary school pupils will be taught skills in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a drive to put the technological power \u201cinto the hands of the next generation\u201d, Sir Keir Starmer will announce.<\/p>\n
Some on million students will be given access to learning resources to start equipping them for \u201cthe tech careers of the future\u201d as part of the Government\u2019s \u00a3187 million \u201cTechFirst\u201d scheme, Downing Street said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, staff at firms across the country will be trained to \u201cuse and interact\u201d with chatbots and large language models as part of a plan backed by Google and Microsoft to train 7.5 million workers in AI skills by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The TechFirst programme will be split into four strands, with TechYouth \u2013 the \u00a324 million \u201cflagship\u201d arm \u2013 aimed at giving students across every secondary school in the UK the chance to gain new AI skills training over three years.<\/p>\n
The other strands are:<\/p>\n
\u2013 TechGrad, backed by \u00a396.8 million in funding and designed to support 1,000 domestic students a year with undergraduate scholarships in areas such as AI and computer science.<\/p>\n
\u2013 A \u00a348.4 million TechExpert scheme aiming to give up to \u00a310,000 in additional funding to 500 domestic PhD students carrying out research in tech.<\/p>\n
\u2013 TechLocal, backed by \u00a318 million, will offer seed funding to small businesses developing new tech products and adopting AI.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister is also launching a new Government partnership with industry to train 7.5 million UK workers in essential skills to use AI by 2030.<\/p>\n
Tech giants including Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nvidia, BT and Amazon have signed up to make \u201chigh-quality\u201d training materials widely available to workers free of charge over the next five years, Number 10 said.<\/p>\n
It comes as research commissioned by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) showed that by 2035, AI will play a part in the roles and responsibilities of around 10 million workers.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir hosted a private reception at Chequers on Sunday with leading technology bosses and investors (PA)<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister said: \u201cWe are putting the power of AI into the hands of the next generation \u2013 so they can shape the future, not be shaped by it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis training programme will unlock opportunity in every classroom \u2013 and lays the foundations for a new era of growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many children from working families like the one I grew up in are written off. I am determined to end that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sir Keir hosted a private reception at Chequers on Sunday with leading technology bosses and investors, including former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, Faculty AI co-founder Angie Ma, Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and Scale boss Alex Wang.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, he will invite industry figures to Downing Street, including 16-year-old AI entrepreneur Toby Brown, who recently secured 1 million dollars in Silicon Valley funding for his startup, Beem.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Secondary school pupils will be taught skills in artificial intelligence (AI) as part of a drive to put…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,1259,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-169089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-uk-news","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114650964571090238","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}