{"id":22525,"date":"2026-03-30T07:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:37:18","slug":"uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s big, risky AI bet \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Aisha Down explores the UK\u2019s \u2018phantom investments\u2019 in AI, and the risk the government has taken in betting so heavily on the technology if it all goes bust<\/p>\n<p>For years now, the UK has bet big on AI. As Keir Starmer put it last year, he wanted to \u2018unleash AI\u2019 to boost growth across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Yet what has become of the billions promised in AI investment? Reporter <strong>Aisha Down <\/strong>charts the murky world of building projects behind schedule, vague spending commitments, and even vast sums being thrown at chips at risk of being out of date.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2026\/mar\/30\/uk-big-risky-ai-bet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/26d51d7ef370d1ff8e1d59bb68ef75a2a2711bc3\/0_0_4713_3771\/master\/4713.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=36e5f7bbb660d471a07188e3dbaba1fa\" title=\"UK\u2019s big, risky AI bet \u2013 podcast\" \/>Reporter Aisha Down explores the UK\u2019s \u2018phantom investments\u2019 in AI, and the risk the government has taken in betting so heavily on the technology if it all goes bust<br \/>\nFor years now, the UK has bet big on AI. As Keir Starmer put it last year, he wanted to \u2018unleash AI\u2019 to boost growth across the country.<br \/>\nYet what has become of the billions promised in AI investment? Reporter Aisha Down charts the murky world of building projects behind schedule, vague spending commitments, and even vast sums being thrown at chips at risk of being out of date. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Aisha Down explores the UK\u2019s \u2018phantom investments\u2019 in AI, and the risk the government has taken in betting so heavily on the technology if it all goes bust For years now, the UK has bet big on AI. As Keir Starmer put it last year, he wanted to \u2018unleash AI\u2019 to boost growth across &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/uks-big-risky-ai-bet-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK\u2019s big, risky AI bet \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}