The UK's AI ambitions are colliding with a governance crisis and a productivity paradox — and today's headlines prove it.
Evidence For
Matt Clifford, the architect of UK AI policy, was forced to resign as chair of Aria (the UK's "moonshot" research agency) after taking a full-time job at Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude. Senior MPs called it a "clear conflict of interest," and Clifford stepped down saying he didn't want his new role to "become a...
