AI, cybersecurity, and quantum computing shape UK’s new 10-year economic plan

Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and cybersecurity are “frontier technologies” the UK government plans to prioritize as part of its blueprint to overhaul the nation’s economy and industries over the next decade.

That’s according to its long-awaited industrial strategy policy paper and a separate plan going into more detail on digital and other technologies.

It would perhaps have been bigger news if the government hadn’t put AI, cybersecurity and quantum computing at the heart of its plans, given that it has already trailed this heavily in a sequence of reports, including January’s