Policy paper co-authored on AI and Robotics with Tony Blair, William Hague @ TBI Institute

As part of their involvement in helping draw out the future of AI at the government level, Decorte co-authored the latest policy paper release from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change alongside Tony Blair, William Hague, Luke Stanley, Jakob Mökander and Benedict Macon-Cooney, on AI, Embodied AI and Robotics.

👉 As one of the points particularly close to our heart, we address the #UK's relative lack of #early- and mid-stage #patient #capital. We believe some of the funding provided by #UKRI, including for #early stage #ventures, has been ineffectively spent. We suggest the creation of a new £100M co-#investing programme through British Patient Capital. Instead of gov picking individual ventures to support, this new programme would co-invest and follow alongside private #VCs in early- and mid-stage #deep and #hardtech #startups such as #hardware, #robotics, embodied and complex #AI. Long-term returns from these #investments could then also support and return value to the nation. This, we believe, could help close the current significant early stage #funding #gap in the UK for those domains.

👉 We further suggest the use of a targeted #Contracts for #Innovation programme to help #public bodies fund solutions, and #Advanced #Market #Commitments (#AMC) to pull through emerging capabilities in robotics and embodied AI. This should help address needs in the public sector and simultaneously support ventures by streamlining their go-to-market.

👉 We also feel regulators, where new uses of AI, embodied AI, hardware and robotics are assessed, need to be financially supported and bring in experts in these domains (to prevent common issues in assessment from arising), in line with suggestions from Prof Dame Angela McLean.

Overall, the report 'A New National Purpose the #UK's opportunity to lead on next wave robotics' sets out how the UK can catch up to other G7 countries in these crucial industries.

Read the full report here: https://institute.global/insights/tech-and-digitalisation/a-new-national-purpose-the-uks-opportunity-to-lead-in-next-wave-robotics