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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Britain must not \u201csuccumb to a narrative of decline\u201d and needs to embrace artificial intelligence after losing economic ground in the past 10 years, the former editor of the Financial Times has said.<\/p>\n Lionel Barber, who was editor of the FT for 15 years until 2020, said Britain needs to be \u201ca lot more business-friendly\u201d after a series of blows to the corporate sector.<\/p>\n Its aims to become a global artificial intelligence (AI) hub are crucial in helping boost the UK\u2019s standing as a global business centre, he said.<\/p>\n Mr Barber told the Press Association: \u201cIt\u2019s very important that this country does not succumb to a narrative of decline.<\/p>\n \u201cIt needs to be a lot more business friendly.<\/p>\n \u201cI think there have been some bad missteps \u2013 Brexit<\/a> has been a massive distraction.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we lost ground in the last 10 years.\u201d<\/p>\n His comments come after Mr Barber has been hired to a new specialist advisory board for US firm Capitol AI as it launches in the UK and Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lord Ed Vaizey<\/a> \u2013 former culture and digital minister \u2013 has also been appointed to the group\u2019s advisory board as the Washington-based firm beefs up its leadership in the UK to help ramp up expansion.<\/p>\n Capitol AI was founded in 2021 by Shaun Modi and Tom Hallaran to offer firms a \u201cmodel-agnostic\u201d agentic AI platform to help make sense of their own data and produce documents, reports, summaries and other products.<\/p>\n Mr Barber said he was keen to take on the role to support a tech start-up and \u201can exciting entrepreneur\u201d, while also helping Britain become a home for cutting-edge AI businesses.<\/p>\n He told PA: \u201cThis country is trying to carve a role out for itself, so it\u2019s AI friendly.\u201d<\/p>\n This is helping attract firms such as Capitol AI to the UK, having just opened a new office in the UK, he said.<\/p>\n The firm has hired former Lockheed Martin<\/a> and Dell<\/a> executive Mike Nayler to run the UK office as it looks to build clients in the public and private sector.<\/p>\n Mr Barber said: \u201cAI is at the heart of its business\u2026 so I\u2019m backing a high-tech entrepreneur, but also this is cutting-edge technology.<\/p>\n \u201cAI is coming, whether you like it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-872525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116349013067292859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872525","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=872525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}