UK's £400B AI economy boost estimate mainly came from Google — now slashed by two-thirds
Wired AI · rss · 2026-11-04
Wired reports that UK officials claimed AI would add £400 billion to the economy, but the AI minister now concedes the figure is less than a third of that. Researchers blame the country's slow rate of AI adoption, and the original estimate was mainly sourced from Google rather than independent analysis.
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