Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, it has been announced.<\/p>\n
Courses taking less than 20 minutes to complete will teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.<\/p>\n
The move has been backed by a panel of experts from business and trade unions, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) said.<\/p>\n
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Liz Kendall (PA) \u00b7 Ben Whitley <\/p>\n
The training could free workers up from routine tasks and create more higher-skilled jobs.<\/p>\n
Those who complete the courses will receive a \u201ca virtual AI foundations badge\u201d, DSIT said.<\/p>\n
Ministers hope to make Britain the fastest adopting AI country in the G7.<\/p>\n
AI skills are in demand in virtually every sector, but there are concerns about workers misusing the technology.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, a review into the banning of Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans from attending a football match against Aston Villa last November found that an \u201cAI hallucination\u201d produced by Microsoft Copilot had helped police justify the move.<\/p>\n
The error meant that a non-existent game between Tel Aviv and West Ham had been referenced in a report produced by the police force prior to the game.<\/p>\n
The Government has criticised Elon Musk over his Grok AI chatbot\u2019s ability to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.<\/p>\n
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: \u201cWe want AI to work for Britain, and that means ensuring Britons can work with AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cChange is inevitable, but the consequences of change are not. We will protect people from the risks of AI while ensuring everyone can share in its benefits.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat starts with giving people the skills and confidence they need to seize the opportunities AI brings, putting the power and control into their hands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, it has been announced. Courses taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[216077,102,748,42114,393,4884,167482,105581,1144,712,216078,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-725414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-ai-hallucination","11":"tag-aston-villa","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-dsit","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-innovation-and-technology","17":"tag-liz-kendall","18":"tag-northern-ireland","19":"tag-scotland","20":"tag-the-department-for-science","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115970345728495756","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725414","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=725414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}